Saginaw Transit Authority Regional Service

Bus at Saginaw Transit Authority Regional Service

Saginaw Transit Authority Regional Service carried 570,696 bus boardings in FY2024 at $13.39 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Saginaw, MI
FY2024 boardings
570.7K
+30.8% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$13.39
-20.3% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$12.07
-20.5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
9.8%
+2% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
3.99M
average trip 6.99 miles
Operating cost
$7.64M
Vehicles in service
21
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
7.06
80.8K 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 bus 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
Directly operated 570,696 3,990,010 80,778 $7,639,357 $13.39 $12.07 9.8% 21

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 Saginaw Transit Authority Regional Service reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 570,696 3,990,010 890,574 80,778 $7,639,357 $752,191 $13.39 $12.07 9.8%
2023 436,287 2,871,854 767,418 67,174 $7,327,068 $707,436 $16.79 $15.17 9.7%
2022 520,826 3,548,687 629,965 53,572 $7,334,489 $727,757 $14.08 $12.69 9.9%
2021 211,907 1,661,196 533,688 41,599 $5,804,906 $600,855 $27.39 $24.56 10.4%
2020 335,348 2,196,255 537,495 40,641 $5,545,193 $579,045 $16.54 $14.81 10.4%
2019 559,991 3,656,713 1,055,254 51,654 $6,055,643 $975,269 $10.81 $9.07 16.1%
2018 504,974 3,378,276 947,165 62,383 $5,366,243 $1,045,734 $10.63 $8.56 19.5%
2017 582,279 0 616,445 35,018 $4,374,357 $630,342 $7.51 $6.43 14.4%
2016 686,220 0 558,080 41,164 $4,437,066 $496,536 $6.47 $5.74 11.2%
2015 1,071,252 0 646,737 42,042 $5,223,530 $702,215 $4.88 $4.22 13.4%