Wichita Transit

Demand Response at Wichita Transit

Wichita Transit carried 70,036 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $37.89 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Wichita, KS
← All of Wichita Transit
FY2024 boardings
70K
-12.9% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$37.89
+10.7% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$34.61
+11.8% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
8.7%
-9% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
666.9K
average trip 9.52 miles
Operating cost
$2.65M
Vehicles in service
21
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.4
29.1K 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 70,036 666,926 29,150 $2,653,961 $37.89 $34.61 8.7% 21

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 Wichita Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 70,036 666,926 602,098 29,150 $2,653,961 $230,195 $37.89 $34.61 8.7%
2023 80,431 544,378 659,039 31,516 $2,752,846 $262,416 $34.23 $30.96 9.5%
2022 75,568 760,219 616,886 29,614 $2,761,632 $245,654 $36.54 $33.29 8.9%
2021 73,683 711,232 612,718 29,781 $2,363,411 $219,122 $32.08 $29.10 9.3%
2020 59,832 551,877 538,714 26,601 $1,983,771 $175,560 $33.16 $30.22 8.8%
2019 80,153 772,067 671,826 32,256 $2,354,333 $260,563 $29.37 $26.12 11.1%
2018 81,032 783,551 683,702 32,605 $2,427,584 $270,996 $29.96 $26.61 11.2%
2017 71,713 715,321 601,909 29,347 $2,397,433 $242,765 $33.43 $30.05 10.1%
2016 184,188 1,333,306 925,484 46,119 $3,180,949 $535,696 $17.27 $14.36 16.8%
2015 237,441 1,591,603 1,044,262 46,804 $3,571,208 $716,342 $15.04 $12.02 20.1%