Ride-On Transportation

What Ride-On Transportation does

Ride-On Transportation is a non-profit organization that provides transit services. Per the firmographic data, it was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California, in the United States, with a public web presence at ride-on.org. The functional scope — the routes operated, vehicle fleet, ridership base, service area, and funding mix — is not disclosed in the input material. The source content drawn from ride-on.org is described as a verification or placeholder page with no substantive company information, so product-level, operational, and financial detail cannot be extracted from this dataset.

The organization's business model is consistent with a U.S. non-profit transit services provider: revenue is most plausibly a combination of passenger fares, local government service contracts or subsidies, and state/federal transit grants, though none of these revenue mechanics are explicitly confirmed in the input. There is no disclosed pricing model, no documented customer segments, no named rider or institutional customers, and no headcount figure, so the scale and unit economics of the operation cannot be triangulated from the supplied data. No leadership team, partnerships, certifications, patents, awards, or strategic transactions are documented.

For investment analysis, the available evidence supports only a baseline characterization: a long-standing (30+ years), privately held non-profit transit services entity operating locally in San Luis Obispo. Any deeper analysis of product surface, competitive position, technology stack, funding posture, or growth trajectory requires primary-source data beyond what the current input provides.

Name

Ride-On Transportation

Website

https://ride-on.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Ride-On Transportation is a non-profit organization founded in 1992 that provides transit services, headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California. It serves the local San Luis Obispo community with public-facing transportation services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Transit Services

NAICS

Special Needs Transportation (485991), Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (48599), Taxi and Ridesharing Services (485310)

SIC

Local & Suburban Transit & Interurban Hwy Passenger Trans (4100), Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Door-to-Door Senior Ride Services (Non-Medical) (HSABAOAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

On-Demand Ride Coordination & Assisted Rides (TNC/Taxi Brokerage) (HSABAOAJ), Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) Ride-Hailing Platforms (TLAFAIAF), Ridepooling & Shared Rides (Dynamic Carpooling) (THAIAGAC)

Keywords

• Community transit services
• Non-emergency transportation
• Nonprofit transportation
• Paratransit services
• Senior transportation

Headquarters

HQ city

San Luis Obispo

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Core offering

Ride-On Transportation is a non-profit organization that provides transit services to the community in San Luis Obispo, California. Founded in 1992, the organization focuses on delivering local transportation solutions to residents of the area.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• ITN America (Independent Transportation Network): National non-profit that pioneered the 'ITN' model of community-based, arm-through-the-door senior transportation using paid drivers and member fares. Directly comparable to Ride-On as a non-profit senior ride program organized at the community level.

Regional players

• SLO County Regional Transit Authority (RTA): Public transit agency serving San Luis Obispo County with fixed-route and paratransit services. Overlaps directly with Ride-On on senior and ADA paratransit riders in the same geography.
• Healthy Aging Association / local senior service non-profits: San Luis Obispo-area senior-services non-profit that frequently cross-refer clients to Ride-On. Closest regional community-services peer with overlapping mission and geography.

Emerging players

• GoGoGrandparent: Tech-enabled service that lets seniors and families request Uber/Lyft rides via phone. A direct functional competitor for senior ride demand that Ride-On serves, illustrating the digital alternative to volunteer-driven non-profits.

Others

• Eldercare Locator / National Aging & Disability Transportation Center: Federally funded resource center that connects older adults and people with disabilities to transportation services. Ecosystem counterpart to local operators like Ride-On, often funding or promoting them.

Broad incumbents

• Uber Health: Uber's healthcare-focused ride coordination product serving payers, providers, and patients. Comparable to Ride-On in serving senior and NEMT demand, but at national scale through a digital platform.
• Modivcare (NEMT division): Large non-emergency medical transportation broker and provider serving Medicaid managed-care plans nationally. Represents the scaled, contract-driven version of what Ride-On does at the community level for special-needs and senior riders.
• Lyft Healthcare (NEMT): Lyft's healthcare arm brokers non-emergency medical transportation for managed-care plans and hospitals. Competes with community non-profits like Ride-On for NEMT trip volume, especially with Medicaid managed-care contracts.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/RideOnSLO
• Facebookfacebook.com/RideOnSLO
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ride-on-transportation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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