Williamsburg Area Transit Authority

Demand Response at Williamsburg Area Transit Authority

Williamsburg Area Transit Authority carried 16,198 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $68.30 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Williamsburg, VA
FY2024 boardings
16.2K
+0.4% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$68.30
-8% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$65.33
-7.9% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
4.3%
-3% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
106.1K
average trip 6.55 miles
Operating cost
$1.11M
Vehicles in service
6
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.47
11.1K 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 16,198 106,083 11,053 $1,106,253 $68.30 $65.33 4.3% 6

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 Williamsburg Area Transit Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 16,198 106,083 141,136 11,053 $1,106,253 $48,001 $68.30 $65.33 4.3%
2023 16,137 122,093 159,808 14,058 $1,197,939 $53,602 $74.24 $70.91 4.5%
2022 17,360 129,085 164,261 15,795 $1,085,866 $49,709 $62.55 $59.69 4.6%
2021 14,501 88,634 144,713 12,876 $738,355 $50.92
2020 11,410 93,551 109,746 8,601 $671,942 $27,900 $58.89 $56.45 4.2%
2019 11,678 95,480 114,440 7,712 $618,698 $35,033 $52.98 $49.98 5.7%
2018 9,761 93,706 98,526 6,643 $589,432 $32,309 $60.39 $57.08 5.5%
2017 9,133 87,677 56,016 2,977 $534,271 $20,724 $58.50 $56.23 3.9%
2016 8,723 60,014 68,784 3,590 $541,778 $13,695 $62.11 $60.54 2.5%
2015 7,393 50,864 56,767 3,148 $500,053 $15,639 $67.64 $65.52 3.1%