Passenger transport includes public passenger transport by bus/coach, rail and air as well as transport by private motor vehicles (private motorised transport), by bicycle or on foot. Official statistics mainly collect and present information on public passenger transport.
In public passenger transport, transport services are measured by the number of trips undertaken by passengers (passengers carried) and in terms of transport performance. The unit of measurement for transport performance is passenger-kilometres, defined as the product of the number of trips made by passengers and the distance travelled. The statistics of passenger transport services, on principle, record the passengers carried in terms of cases of transportation. This means that a person undertaking several trips in the reference period is counted several times. Results of high accuracy are available from the monthly or quarterly transport services statistics about 30 to 50 days after the end of the reference period.
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Version: 2.25.5 / 20.10.2008
