Press release No. 333 of 21 September 2016
WIESBADEN – The number of passengers using means of public regular road and rail transport in Germany in the first half of 2016 increased by 2.0% from the first half of 2015. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the larger enterprises of public regular passenger transport carried more than 5.7 billion passengers, almost 5.7 billion passengers in regular short-distance transport and 78 million passengers in regular long-distance transport.