Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System

Bus at Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System

Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System carried 67,409 bus boardings in FY2024 at $62.54 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Merced, CA
FY2024 boardings
67.4K
+8.8% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$62.54
+5.3% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$52.64
+6.2% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
15.8%
-4.3% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$4.22M
Vehicles in service
13
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.65
18.5K 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 bus 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
Purchased transportation 67,409 18,454 $4,215,938 $62.54 $52.64 15.8% 13

Full series

Every year Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 67,409 463,980 18,454 $4,215,938 $667,244 $62.54 $52.64 15.8%
2023 61,950 474,121 17,365 $3,678,726 $608,265 $59.38 $49.56 16.5%
2022 70,980 560,549 19,791 $3,571,267 $556,545 $50.31 $42.47 15.6%
2021 53,919 559,079 19,152 $3,464,381 $167,609 $64.25 $61.14 4.8%
2020 77,173 479,359 16,659 $3,208,246 $499,238 $41.57 $35.10 15.6%
2019 80,725 442,720 15,458 $2,479,384 $408,986 $30.71 $25.65 16.5%
2018 120,730 607,712 22,522 $3,333,700 $486,862 $27.61 $23.58 14.6%
2017 106,744 402,629 17,131 $2,298,999 $479,998 $21.54 $17.04 20.9%
2016 156,000 449,889 16,370 $2,159,925 $446,974 $13.85 $10.98 20.7%