Southeast Arkansas Transportation

Demand Response at Southeast Arkansas Transportation

Southeast Arkansas Transportation carried 216,574 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $59.86 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Pine Bluff, AR
FY2025 boardings
216.6K
+7.4% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$59.86
+32% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$21.87
-11% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
63.5%
+38.5% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$13M
Vehicles in service
123
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.2
180.5K 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 216,574 — 180,532 $12,964,484 $59.86 $21.87 63.5% 123

Full series

Every year Southeast Arkansas Transportation reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 216,574 — 4,692,633 180,532 $12,964,484 $8,227,935 $59.86 $21.87 63.5%
2024 201,579 — 4,636,849 176,379 $9,143,324 $4,189,022 $45.36 $24.58 45.8%
2023 186,098 — 4,569,673 175,604 $9,577,800 $884,789 $51.47 $46.71 9.2%
2022 166,309 — 4,001,683 158,373 $8,174,538 $839,957 $49.15 $44.10 10.3%
2021 101,247 — 3,748,129 115,630 $6,827,847 $842,397 $67.44 $59.12 12.3%
2020 159,978 — 4,104,130 162,138 $7,308,667 $871,859 $45.69 $40.24 11.9%
2019 211,827 — 4,385,460 176,158 $6,254,299 $217,238 $29.53 $28.50 3.5%
2018 214,678 — 4,239,985 176,099 $5,801,586 $207,810 $27.02 $26.06 3.6%
2017 227,868 — 4,169,321 173,534 $5,494,197 $216,292 $24.11 $23.16 3.9%
2016 238,970 — 4,218,732 181,587 $5,603,855 $216,432 $23.45 $22.54 3.9%
2015 245,821 — 3,725,349 183,016 $5,611,907 $197,955 $22.83 $22.02 3.5%