Southwest Area Regional Transit District

Demand Response at Southwest Area Regional Transit District

Southwest Area Regional Transit District carried 106,560 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $30.68 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Uvalde, TX
FY2024 boardings
106.6K
+5% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$30.68
+9.9% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$25.01
+22.5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
18.5%
-31.2% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$3.27M
Vehicles in service
19
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.75
38.7K 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, 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 106,560 38,702 $3,269,522 $30.68 $25.01 18.5% 19

Full series

Every year Southwest Area Regional Transit District reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 106,560 591,847 38,702 $3,269,522 $604,714 $30.68 $25.01 18.5%
2023 101,501 702,852 38,923 $2,834,884 $762,296 $27.93 $20.42 26.9%
2022 57,469 657,904 33,762 $2,717,211 $575,653 $47.28 $37.26 21.2%
2021 45,411 476,774 26,035 $2,767,071 $112,874 $60.93 $58.45 4.1%
2020 76,782 378,057 26,040 $2,350,034 $99,300 $30.61 $29.31 4.2%
2019 117,693 394,462 23,551 $1,975,801 $165,597 $16.79 $15.38 8.4%
2018 120,168 929,369 46,153 $2,620,033 $148,166 $21.80 $20.57 5.7%
2017 159,773 926,024 51,611 $2,445,587 $186,073 $15.31 $14.14 7.6%
2016 158,840 815,957 45,249 $2,318,429 $147,476 $14.60 $13.67 6.4%
2015 158,725 937,582 47,343 $2,501,526 $178,317 $15.76 $14.64 7.1%