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Transit type: Rapid transit: Number of lines: 19 [a] Number of stations: 506 [b] (transfer stations counted repeatedly, according to number of lines serving the station) 408 (interchange stations counted once) Daily ridership: 10.03 million (2023 avg.) [1] 13.39 million (record) [2] Annual ridership: 3.661 billion (2023) [3] Website: shmetro ...
As of April 2024, China has the world's longest urban rail transit system with 10,273.7 km (6,383.8 mi) of urban rail nationwide in 310 metro lines in 54 cities, accounting for 9 of the 10 longest metro systems, with the exceptions of the Moscow Metro. [2]
Via Rail, Canada's main intercity rail provider, transported 5 million passengers in 2019. Commuter railway systems in and around Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver transported an additional 101.9 million passengers in 2019. Includes only Bangladesh Railway figures. Oslo Metro alone had 122 million passengers in 2018.
The high-speed rail (HSR) network in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the world's longest and most extensively used – with a total length of 45,000 kilometres (28,000 mi) by the end of 2023. [1][2][3] The HSR network encompasses newly built rail lines with a design speed of 200–380 km/h (120–240 mph). [4]
During a non-commercial test run on 12 November 2003 a maglev train achieved a Chinese record speed of 501 km/h (311 mph). [8] The Shanghai Maglev has a length of 153 metres (502 ft 0 in), a width of 3.7 metres (12 ft 2 in), a height of 4.2 metres (13 ft 9 in) and a three-class, 574-passenger configuration (End section (ES) 1st class: 56 ...
In 1935, national intercity bus ridership climbed 50% to 651,999,000 passengers, surpassing the volume of passengers carried by the Class I railroads for the first time. [16] In 1935, Wickman reported record profits of $8 million. In 1936, already the largest bus carrier in the United States, Greyhound began taking delivery of 306 new buses. [16]
Line 2 (Shanghai Metro) Line 2 is an east–west line in the Shanghai Metro network. With a length of nearly 64 km (40 mi), it is the second longest line in the metro system after line 11. Line 2 runs from East Xujing in the west to Pudong International Airport in the east, passing Hongqiao Airport, the Huangpu river, and the Lujiazui Financial ...
A 2002 National Center for Transportation Research report suggests that, while transit ridership does tend to increase, there are also some disadvantages: [24] An increase in vandalism, resulting in increased costs for security and vehicle-maintenance; In large transit systems, significant revenue shortfalls unless additional funding was provided