Transportation and Parking Services

Demand Response at Transportation and Parking Services

Transportation and Parking Services carried 9,268 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $65.02 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Athens, GA
FY2024 boardings
9.3K
+34.1% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$65.02
-7.7% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
27.7K
average trip 2.99 miles
Operating cost
$602.6K
Vehicles in service
8
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.62
5.7K 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
Directly operated 9,268 27,686 5,725 $602,592 $65.02 8

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 Transportation and Parking Services reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 9,268 27,686 23,679 5,725 $602,592 $65.02
2023 6,913 20,689 20,138 4,220 $487,053 $70.45
2022 6,156 18,480 18,731 3,517 $447,599 $72.71
2021 0 0 0 0
2020 9,196 11,788 28,785 5,875 $424,949 $10,518 $46.21 $45.07 2.5%
2019 10,206 11,673 35,948 7,515 $414,060 $14,225 $40.57 $39.18 3.4%
2018 7,566 8,507 26,855 6,371 $416,816 $10,606 $55.09 $53.69 2.5%
2017 14,646 16,573 49,828 10,266 $366,575 $19,850 $25.03 $23.67 5.4%
2016 13,491 16,256 46,468 9,574 $327,267 $10,413 $24.26 $23.49 3.2%
2015 13,734 16,481 45,468 8,772 $345,957 $17,585 $25.19 $23.91 5.1%