Shore Transit

Demand Response at Shore Transit

Shore Transit carried 43,885 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $69.94 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Salisbury, MD
FY2024 boardings
43.9K
-16.8% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$69.94
+29.3% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$65.18
+29.6% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
6.8%
-2.7% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
570.5K
average trip 13 miles
Operating cost
$3.07M
Vehicles in service
17
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.48
29.6K 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
Directly operated 43,885 570,491 29,568 $3,069,366 $69.94 $65.18 6.8% 17

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 Shore Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 43,885 570,491 525,521 29,568 $3,069,366 $209,016 $69.94 $65.18 6.8%
2023 52,759 674,497 568,995 30,823 $2,853,108 $199,686 $54.08 $50.29 7%
2022 45,032 580,725 532,331 28,183 $2,193,528 $164,636 $48.71 $45.05 7.5%
2021 29,877 334,735 323,513 19,962 $2,241,644 $157,147 $75.03 $69.77 7%
2020 52,364 680,284 515,465 31,723 $2,487,665 $215,431 $47.51 $43.39 8.7%
2019 63,716 750,665 649,604 36,469 $2,847,956 $280,307 $44.70 $40.30 9.8%
2018 50,174 711,531 484,642 26,599 $2,764,032 $277,974 $55.09 $49.55 10.1%
2017 47,839 683,076 473,996 27,497 $2,514,475 $194,647 $52.56 $48.49 7.7%
2016 48,859 685,573 446,534 25,176 $2,694,745 $124,378 $55.15 $52.61 4.6%
2015 78,315 1,304,423 698,217 37,341 $3,299,032 $183,634 $42.13 $39.78 5.6%