Data & Statistics

Tables and charts with relevant and latest information

• USA: FTA’s appropriations and apportionments for grant programs for FY13

  May 1, 2013
  The Table below indicates the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) formula and bus grants, capital investment grants, research grants and allocation for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for FY2013.

• USA: FTA’s metropolitan and state transportation planning funds for FY13

  May 1, 2013
  The FY2013 Section 5303 metropolitan transportation planning program and Section 5304 state-wide transportation planning program apportionments are indicated in the table below.

• USA: FTA’s urbanised area apportionments for FY2013 [free access]

  May 1, 2013
  The Section 5307 and Section 5340 urbanised area apportionments for populations of 1,000,000 or more, 200,000 - 999,999 and 50,000 - 199,999 are indicated in the table below.

• Northern Ireland: Ulsterbus passenger journeys, bus miles, passenger receipts

  April 1, 2013
  Ulsterbus is part of Translink and provides bus services in cities and villages across Northern Ireland as well as services to and from Belfast.

• Northern Ireland: Metro passenger journeys, bus miles, passenger receipts

  April 1, 2013
  The bus company Citybus in Belfast has a trading name – Metro.

• Northern Ireland: Details of Ulsterbus and Metro from 2007-08 to 2011-12 [free access]

  April 1, 2013
  In 2011-12 Ulsterbus had 1,133 buses while Metro had 282 buses, with the average age of the buses being 6.5 and 8.8 years, respectively.

• Japan: Passengers carried by Railways and Tramways during 2004-2011

  March 1, 2013
  The total number of passengers carried by railways and tramways during 2011 stood at about 22,632 million.

• Japan: Passenger kilometres of Railways and Tramways during 2004-2011

  March 1, 2013
  The total passenger-km for railways and tramways stood at about 395,006 million in 2011. Of this, about 63 per cent were carried by Japan Railway while the rest was carried by private railways.

• Japan: Passengers carried and passenger-km of buses during 1960-2010 [free access]

  March 1, 2013
  The total number of passengers carried by buses in 2010 stood at about 4,413 million while the passenger-km stood at about 66,696 million.

• India: Leading suppliers of metro cars in the country [free access]

  February 1, 2013
  Rolling stock for Indian metro systems is primarily sourced from global players like Hyundai Rotem, Bombardier and Alstom, etc.

• India: AFC Gates operational on metro systems in the country

  February 1, 2013
  According to Global Mass Transit Research, about 1,717 (in number) AFC gates have been installed on the operational network.

• India: Financing of metro projects as of October 2012

  February 1, 2013
  About 70 per cent of the metro projects have been developed/are being constructed through public funding.

• Hong Kong: Average daily public transport passenger journeys by mode

  January 1, 2013
  In Hong Kong, the average daily public transport passenger journeys for buses (including franchised buses, public light buses, and Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway buses) has been higher in comparison to railways (including light rail, tramways, and heavy rail).

• Hong Kong: Public transport passenger journeys by operator group [free access]

  January 1, 2013
  Analysing the data for operator-wise passenger journeys reveals that Kowloon Motor Bus is the biggest bus operator while Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway is the leader in providing rail-based transport.

• Hong Kong: Franchised buses and MTR passenger journeys by region

  January 1, 2013
  Intra Kowloon/New Territories region is the busiest region in Hong Kong as it witnesses the highest number of passenger journeys, both for franchised buses and for Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR) operated rail lines.

• New Zealand: Bus fleet by region during 2007 to 2011 [free access]

  December 1, 2012
  As of 2011, the total bus fleet stands at 8,217. A regional break-up of the bus fleet reveals that the Auckland region has the highest number of buses (2,023) followed by Canterbury (1,459) and Wellington (691) respectively.

• New Zealand: Average age of bus fleet by region during 2007 to 2011

  December 1, 2012
  A regional break-up of New Zealand’s bus fleet in terms of average age reveals that as of 2011, the lowest average age is in Auckland and Wellington (both at 13.3 years), while the highest average age is in Taranaki.

• New Zealand: Public transport passenger boardings by region during 2007-11

  December 1, 2012
  During the five-year period from 2006-07 and 2010-11, bus passenger boardings in New Zealand increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.40 per cent, with the figure standing at 101.60 million in 2010-11.

• UK: Passenger journeys on light-rail by system [free access]

  November 1, 2012
  The total number of passenger journeys made on light-rail in the UK has increased over the years as new systems have added.

• UK: Passenger journeys on local buses by metropolitan area status and country

  November 1, 2012
  Overall passenger journeys made by bus in the Great Britain region follow a U-shaped trend between 1970 and 2011-12...