Utah Transit Authority

Commuter Rail at Utah Transit Authority

Utah Transit Authority carried 4,128,460 commuter rail boardings in FY2024 at $12.98 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Commuter Rail Salt Lake City, UT
FY2024 boardings
4.13M
+10.5% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$12.98
-16.4% nationwide $24.41
Subsidy per ride
$11.84
-17.5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
8.8%
+16.1% nationwide 26%
Passenger miles
118.6M
average trip 28.73 miles
Operating cost
$53.6M
Vehicles in service
40
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
28.49
144.9K 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 commuter rail 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 4,128,460 118,630,614 144,894 $53,592,936 $12.98 $11.84 8.8% 40

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Utah Transit Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 4,128,460 118,630,614 3,971,930 144,894 $53,592,936 $4,716,058 $12.98 $11.84 8.8%
2023 3,736,620 107,783,049 3,848,784 140,565 $58,003,120 $4,396,324 $15.52 $14.35 7.6%
2022 3,230,521 90,208,359 4,202,147 149,864 $64,403,715 $4,015,438 $19.94 $18.69 6.2%
2021 2,062,334 54,462,098 4,569,404 148,822 $49,428,282 $2,856,640 $23.97 $22.58 5.8%
2020 2,024,524 51,916,777 4,039,581 124,396 $43,133,266 $3,361,201 $21.31 $19.65 7.8%
2019 5,193,879 133,685,517 5,401,987 166,668 $44,291,302 $7,084,619 $8.53 $7.16 16%
2018 5,082,168 129,673,508 5,429,232 164,930 $43,421,951 $7,375,985 $8.54 $7.09 17%
2017 4,854,099 122,257,990 5,349,524 154,744 $34,438,729 $7,212,605 $7.09 $5.61 20.9%
2016 4,545,849 125,131,274 5,401,304 156,128 $45,231,732 $6,760,749 $9.95 $8.46 14.9%
2015 4,645,307 128,654,270 5,374,372 154,506 $39,332,755 $7,079,152 $8.47 $6.94 18%