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Press release No. 140 of 6 April 2023 Number of passengers up 29% in regular bus and rail transport in 2022
The number of passengers travelling short and long distances in regular bus, coach and rail transport was considerably higher in 2022 than in 2021, the year which was strongly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Passenger numbers rose by 29% to nearly …
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Press release No. 423 of 6 October 2022 Coach industry 2020 and 2021: number of passengers down 77% from before the pandemic
Much smaller numbers of people travelled longer distances by coach in the Covid years of 2020 and 2021 than before the pandemic. The number of coach passengers (excluding regular services) was down by more than three fourths (-77%) in each of the two …
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Press release No. 401 of 21 September 2022 Number of bus and rail passengers up by just over a third in the 1st half of 2022
Considerably more passengers used regular bus or rail transport services in the first half of 2022 than in the same period a year earlier. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of passengers …
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Press release No. 333 of 5 August 2022 Short-distance trains in the 2nd quarter of 2022: Transport performance more than doubled
The number of passengers and transport performance in public short-distance passenger transport markedly increased in the second quarter of 2022. This is shown by a provisional ad-hoc evaluation of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The …
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Press release No. N048 of 29 July 2022 June 2022: number of air passengers more than tripled compared with June 2021
Approximately 16.3 million air passengers arrived at, or departed from, the 23 largest commercial airports in Germany in June 2022. Their number has more than tripled (+215.1%) compared with June 2021, according to the Federal Statistical Office ( …
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Press release No. 152 of 7 April 2022 Number of rail and bus passengers in 2021 down one third compared to 2019
The number of passengers using regular public transport by railways, trams and buses in Germany in 2021 decreased by 4 % from the year 2020 and 34 % from the year 2019 before the Corona pandemic. According to results of the Federal Statistical Office ( …
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Press release No. 444 of 21 September 2021 Number of bus and rail passengers down by 18% in the 1st half of 2021
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a considerably smaller number of passengers travelled by bus or rail in the 1st half of 2021 than in the same period a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decrease of nearly …
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Press release No. N 054 of 15 September 2021 68% of the persons in employment went to work by car in 2020
For millions of commuters, the car is the most popular means of transport. In 2020, 68% of them indicated that they usually take the car to go to work. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The users of public transport such …
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Press release No. 172 of 8 April 2021 Passenger numbers in regular long-distance bus and rail transport down by half in 2020
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, only about half as many passengers as in the pre-crisis year of 2019 used regular long-distance bus or rail transport services in 2020. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of passengers …