Roscommon County Transportation Authority

Demand Response at Roscommon County Transportation Authority

Roscommon County Transportation Authority carried 57,660 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $50.06 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Houghton Lake, MI
FY2025 boardings
57.7K
-12.5% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$50.06
+26% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$46.64
+48% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
6.8%
-66.9% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$2.89M
Vehicles in service
28
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.67
34.4K hours operated

Ridership

This service reports annually.

Monthly boardings

NTD publishes monthly figures for full reporters only, so this service has annual data alone.

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, FY2025

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
Directly operated 57,660 — 34,432 $2,886,512 $50.06 $46.64 6.8% 28

Full series

Every year Roscommon County Transportation Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 57,660 — 590,912 34,432 $2,886,512 $197,519 $50.06 $46.64 6.8%
2024 65,885 — 579,820 39,098 $2,616,854 $541,429 $39.72 $31.50 20.7%
2023 64,612 — 529,542 26,597 $2,410,887 $57,976 $37.31 $36.42 2.4%
2022 66,327 — 518,069 26,344 $2,363,319 $61,541 $35.63 $34.70 2.6%
2021 61,461 — 525,357 26,393 $2,070,847 $62,447 $33.69 $32.68 3%
2020 60,508 — 487,947 24,238 $1,941,030 $100,609 $32.08 $30.42 5.2%
2019 89,547 — 568,015 27,904 $2,104,279 $180,543 $23.50 $21.48 8.6%
2018 88,362 — 567,167 29,377 $2,025,828 $159,150 $22.93 $21.13 7.9%
2017 88,987 — 574,598 28,029 $1,820,848 $150,170 $20.46 $18.77 8.2%
2016 100,606 — 573,391 28,061 $1,697,359 $165,265 $16.87 $15.23 9.7%
2015 155,236 — 683,815 33,828 $1,782,736 $233,007 $11.48 $9.98 13.1%