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Sep03

Public transport - interesting numbers

| 03/09/09 | Categories: Airlines, Railways, Statistics, State of the ART | by: A Sharp

The July/August issue of Public Transport International, the magazine of the UITP (Public Transport Union), has some interesting statistics in an article by Yves Amsler on integrated air-rail ticketing.

It says that the largest region in Europe for air passengers is the Ile-de-France (around Paris): this generates 80 million air passengers a year.

By contrast the ground-based public transport modes in the same region - RATP, SNCF and OPTILE - carry 3.6 billion. This is 44 times the air passenger count.

Clearly the average air traveller goes much further than the average bus passenger - but it's an interesting comparison.