Thousand Palms SunLine

Vanpool at Thousand Palms SunLine

Thousand Palms SunLine carried 23,739 vanpool boardings in FY2024 at $5.63 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Vanpool Thousand Palms, CA
FY2024 boardings
23.7K
+19% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$5.63
-58.4% nationwide $8.10
Subsidy per ride
$-0.79
-112.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
114%
+119.9% nationwide 71.2%
Passenger miles
1.27M
average trip 53.64 miles
Operating cost
$133.6K
Vehicles in service
7
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
5.44
4.4K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through June 2024.

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 vanpool 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 23,739 1,273,279 4,367 $133,647 $5.63 $-0.79 114% 7

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 Thousand Palms SunLine reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 23,739 1,273,279 227,419 4,367 $133,647 $152,327 $5.63 $-0.79 114%
2023 19,948 1,059,616 190,868 3,962 $270,166 $140,025 $13.54 $6.52 51.8%
2022 17,110 907,071 193,044 4,014 $272,380 $141,154 $15.92 $7.67 51.8%
2021 16,028 929,468 191,501 3,613 $229,917 $120,280 $14.34 $6.84 52.3%
2020 15,623 906,984 183,805 3,434 $286,129 $108,896 $18.31 $11.34 38.1%
2019 23,025 1,580,691 310,352 5,613 $293,631 $164,276 $12.75 $5.62 55.9%
2018 19,224 1,438,799 287,951 4,697 $449,981 $121,917 $23.41 $17.07 27.1%