Tavares LakeXpress

Demand Response at Tavares LakeXpress

Tavares LakeXpress carried 75,293 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $67.85 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Tavares, FL
FY2024 boardings
75.3K
+6% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$67.85
+3.6% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$66.47
+3.7% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2%
-3.1% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
832.1K
average trip 11.05 miles
Operating cost
$5.11M
Vehicles in service
30
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.36
55.4K 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
Purchased transportation 75,293 832,092 55,448 $5,108,801 $67.85 $66.47 2% 30

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 Tavares LakeXpress reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 75,293 832,092 812,870 55,448 $5,108,801 $104,271 $67.85 $66.47 2%
2023 71,059 780,503 734,512 50,200 $4,653,217 $98,031 $65.48 $64.10 2.1%
2022 63,175 692,098 636,517 42,527 $3,309,133 $81,443 $52.38 $51.09 2.5%
2021 63,363 648,109 653,586 44,905 $3,245,328 $86,494 $51.22 $49.85 2.7%
2020 90,856 1,012,698 805,636 55,492 $3,374,355 $69,468 $37.14 $36.38 2.1%
2019 118,750 1,375,618 1,039,601 68,036 $3,988,841 $100,567 $33.59 $32.74 2.5%
2018 107,312 1,298,564 976,113 62,532 $3,981,841 $99,219 $37.11 $36.18 2.5%
2017 92,736 1,233,388 923,518 57,256 $3,589,450 $94,881 $38.71 $37.68 2.6%
2016 103,422 1,388,117 999,951 60,515 $2,940,838 $99,487 $28.44 $27.47 3.4%
2015 130,373 1,956,105 1,192,376 73,299 $3,411,404 $87,542 $26.17 $25.50 2.6%