Southwest Iowa Transit Agency

Demand Response at Southwest Iowa Transit Agency

Southwest Iowa Transit Agency carried 536,472 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $8.95 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Atlantic, IA
FY2024 boardings
536.5K
+2% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$8.95
-0.4% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$6.30
-8.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
29.6%
+25.1% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$4.8M
Vehicles in service
70
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
4.87
110.1K 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 536,472 110,139 $4,801,846 $8.95 $6.30 29.6% 70

Full series

Every year Southwest Iowa Transit Agency reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 536,472 1,819,137 110,139 $4,801,846 $1,422,531 $8.95 $6.30 29.6%
2023 526,033 1,736,381 107,200 $4,725,457 $1,119,157 $8.98 $6.86 23.7%
2022 467,070 1,731,921 100,818 $4,262,904 $936,970 $9.13 $7.12 22%
2021 225,491 1,644,628 92,899 $5,431,157 $348,944 $24.09 $22.54 6.4%
2020 291,201 1,340,499 89,718 $4,206,231 $342,262 $14.44 $13.27 8.1%
2019 332,142 1,658,806 110,766 $4,262,132 $405,867 $12.83 $11.61 9.5%
2018 324,786 1,552,364 101,840 $3,205,540 $300,374 $9.87 $8.94 9.4%
2017 355,966 1,487,016 94,970 $3,321,341 $262,011 $9.33 $8.59 7.9%
2016 365,570 1,560,381 92,384 $3,040,024 $502,700 $8.32 $6.94 16.5%
2015 367,258 1,477,355 88,122 $2,793,121 $423,588 $7.61 $6.45 15.2%