Utah Transit Authority

Vanpool at Utah Transit Authority

Utah Transit Authority carried 1,301,235 vanpool boardings in FY2025 at $21.36 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Vanpool Salt Lake City, UT
FY2025 boardings
1.3M
+13% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$21.36
-17.5% nationwide $8.07
Subsidy per ride
$17.95
-20.5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
15.9%
+24.4% nationwide 73.2%
Passenger miles
43.6M
average trip 33.52 miles
Operating cost
$27.8M
Vehicles in service
475
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
6.59
197.5K 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 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, 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 1,301,235 43,616,217 197,465 $27,790,897 $21.36 $17.95 15.9% 475

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 Utah Transit Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 1,301,235 43,616,217 8,135,439 197,465 $27,790,897 $4,431,300 $21.36 $17.95 15.9%
2024 1,151,649 41,971,370 7,925,575 186,992 $29,821,130 $3,822,352 $25.89 $22.58 12.8%
2023 1,033,123 38,627,420 7,454,630 170,474 $24,408,545 $3,723,976 $23.63 $20.02 15.3%
2022 731,900 30,015,557 6,182,824 141,005 $20,499,485 $3,042,346 $28.01 $23.85 14.8%
2021 587,721 25,403,512 5,633,164 126,676 $17,626,154 $2,835,064 $29.99 $25.17 16.1%
2020 658,990 27,330,736 5,705,170 127,705 $17,374,432 $3,357,063 $26.37 $21.27 19.3%
2019 1,068,364 37,026,581 6,451,812 195,895 $15,911,105 $3,927,899 $14.89 $11.22 24.7%
2018 1,174,696 43,052,589 6,354,828 168,866 $18,784,904 $3,946,125 $15.99 $12.63 21%
2017 1,264,410 46,756,678 6,449,439 176,776 $3,469,358 $4,728,930 $2.74 $-1.00 136.3%
2016 1,333,780 49,245,855 6,518,150 171,054 $3,293,814 $4,807,647 $2.47 $-1.13 146%
2015 1,423,675 51,997,859 6,734,487 174,746 $3,393,526 $5,198,514 $2.38 $-1.27 153.2%