Rogue Valley Transportation District

Demand Response at Rogue Valley Transportation District

Rogue Valley Transportation District carried 42,166 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $74.65 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Medford, OR
FY2024 boardings
42.2K
+3.1% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$74.65
+10.6% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$72.93
+11.4% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2.3%
-22.9% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
299.4K
average trip 7.1 miles
Operating cost
$3.15M
Vehicles in service
18
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.48
28.4K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through July 2026.

This year against the last five

Same months on one axis, so seasonality does not read as a trend

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

This service against every demand response operator in the country.

Cost per ride

This agency against the national figure for the same mode

Fare recovery

Share of operating cost covered by fares

Directly operated and purchased service, FY2024

NTD reports these separately. An agency that contracts a service out reports the contract price, which bundles costs a directly operating agency reports line by line.

Service Boardings Passenger miles Revenue hours Operating cost Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery Vehicles
Purchased transportation 42,166 299,371 28,447 $3,147,901 $74.65 $72.93 2.3% 18

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Rogue Valley Transportation District reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 42,166 299,371 385,946 28,447 $3,147,901 $72,661 $74.65 $72.93 2.3%
2023 40,906 290,148 382,511 27,897 $2,760,324 $82,597 $67.48 $65.46 3%
2022 40,486 262,573 349,387 26,383 $2,693,487 $109,675 $66.53 $63.82 4.1%
2021 34,233 201,086 296,877 24,568 $2,436,537 $81,837 $71.18 $68.78 3.4%
2020 43,300 295,081 369,084 27,906 $2,126,061 $112,176 $49.10 $46.51 5.3%
2019 48,949 370,241 429,699 30,387 $2,280,526 $111,858 $46.59 $44.30 4.9%
2018 51,469 403,270 445,893 30,760 $2,246,758 $120,935 $43.65 $41.30 5.4%
2017 52,130 413,730 443,581 31,233 $2,165,993 $156,086 $41.55 $38.56 7.2%
2016 51,681 397,648 442,682 30,766 $1,891,227 $147,408 $36.59 $33.74 7.8%
2015 57,194 511,832 502,358 35,786 $1,756,542 $119,981 $30.71 $28.61 6.8%