Thunderbay Transportation Authority

Demand Response at Thunderbay Transportation Authority

Thunderbay Transportation Authority carried 104,568 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $19.47 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Alpena, MI
FY2025 boardings
104.6K
+2.9% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$19.47
+2.5% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$18.60
+3.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
4.5%
-12.1% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$2.04M
Vehicles in service
28
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.23
32.4K 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
Purchased transportation — — — — — — — —
Directly operated 104,568 — 32,391 $2,036,174 $19.47 $18.60 4.5% 28

Full series

Every year Thunderbay Transportation Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 104,568 — 673,912 32,391 $2,036,174 $91,358 $19.47 $18.60 4.5%
2024 101,660 — 600,252 31,259 $1,932,048 $98,652 $19.00 $18.03 5.1%
2023 95,375 — 624,684 31,356 $1,953,765 $87,252 $20.49 $19.57 4.5%
2022 75,928 — 327,608 24,644 $1,573,495 $86,226 $20.72 $19.59 5.5%
2021 54,164 — 230,649 14,924 $1,086,519 $73,725 $20.06 $18.70 6.8%
2020 64,657 — 221,236 15,243 $1,101,513 $75,378 $17.04 $15.87 6.8%
2019 105,378 — 321,174 22,308 $1,633,701 $107,060 $15.50 $14.49 6.6%
2018 133,340 — 501,931 30,974 $1,598,348 $119,455 $11.99 $11.09 7.5%
2017 136,626 — 501,984 31,110 $2,482,959 $124,333 $18.17 $17.26 5%
2016 131,127 — 498,133 32,550 $2,636,107 $113,828 $20.10 $19.24 4.3%
2015 147,109 — 563,929 33,712 $2,370,204 $822,062 $16.11 $10.52 34.7%