TransIt Services of Frederick

Bus at TransIt Services of Frederick

TransIt Services of Frederick carried 872,741 bus boardings in FY2025 at $8.41 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Frederick, MD
FY2025 boardings
872.7K
+10.5% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$8.41
-4.1% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$8.39
-4% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
0.3%
-38.2% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
4.37M
average trip 5.01 miles
Operating cost
$7.34M
Vehicles in service
20
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
13.98
62.4K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 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 bus 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
Directly operated 872,741 4,374,448 62,440 $7,340,219 $8.41 $8.39 0.3% 20

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 TransIt Services of Frederick reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 872,741 4,374,448 779,921 62,440 $7,340,219 $18,812 $8.41 $8.39 0.3%
2024 790,146 3,962,549 739,320 59,007 $6,930,725 $28,722 $8.77 $8.74 0.4%
2023 641,014 3,423,014 722,132 56,727 $6,473,738 $16,830 $10.10 $10.07 0.3%
2022 473,677 2,528,487 762,044 60,043 $6,301,314 $13,885 $13.30 $13.27 0.2%
2021 388,714 2,074,955 748,995 60,370 $5,701,214 $13,027 $14.67 $14.63 0.2%
2020 449,374 2,398,588 709,423 55,991 $5,446,611 $415,376 $12.12 $11.20 7.6%
2019 551,192 2,942,534 794,364 64,781 $5,698,651 $564,693 $10.34 $9.31 9.9%
2018 566,687 3,302,009 791,321 64,816 $5,180,128 $564,005 $9.14 $8.15 10.9%
2017 571,334 3,332,809 654,297 58,678 $4,686,495 $546,852 $8.20 $7.25 11.7%
2016 612,813 2,978,226 654,929 57,229 $4,123,780 $570,318 $6.73 $5.80 13.8%
2015 694,495 3,375,246 636,601 56,280 $4,227,691 $654,796 $6.09 $5.14 15.5%