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Commuting * USA - State of Metropolitan America Indicator Map

Washington,DC,USA -Brookings -27 Nov 2010: -- Commuting flows are the “blood” of regional economies, showing the connections among businesses and the labor market, and tying together the places that define our metropolitan areas. This subject area details how we get to work, how long it takes us, and how patterns in these indicators have changed over time, pointing to significant differences across communities in how workers undertake these daily trips... (State of Metropolitan America Indicator Map - Source: ACS Table B08301; Census 2000 SF3 Table P30: Some geographies for this indicator have been modified due to missing data.

* Statistically significant at the 90% confidence level)

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Passengers Statistics * Spain - Users of the city bus in then

Passengers using the city bus in the Region of Murcia fell by 1.2% in June, to 1.41 million

Murcia,Spain -Powerleveling Reports, by Vanesa Barbadillo Jalon & Alvaro -August 9, 2010: -- The number of passengers who used regular urban transportation by bus generally low 1.2 percent in June in the Region of Murcia from the same month of 2009, and transported 1.41 million passengers, representing the sixth further decline by autonomous communities, according to data released today by the National Statistics Institute (INE)... In the whole of Spain, the number of passengers who opted for the plane for, fallen earth chips, trips within the country rose 3.8 percent in June compared to the same month of 2009, while those who opted for the train and bus fell 3.6 percent and 2.3 percent respectively... In the case of transport by train highlights year decrease of 9.7 percent was noted middle-distance trains, followed by, darkfall gold, Long Distance, which include high-speed service (AVE), with a fall of 4.8 percent, and suburban (-3.1 percent)... In total, more than 112 million passengers used the long distance transportation in June, up 2.6 percent from the same month in 2009... (Photo from murciaairport.eu: Murcia bus station the national bus company Alsa)

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TRANSPORT STATISTICS * Germany - 1.1% more passengers used bus and rail transport in 2009

Berlin,Germany -Transport Weekly (Riga,Letonia) -8 April 2010: -- According to results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of passengers using means of public regular road and rail transport in Germany increased by 1.1% in 2009 from the preceding year. The larger enterprises of public regular passenger transport (enterprises with a minimum of yearly 250,000 passengers) carried nearly 10.7 billion passengers, more than 10.5 billion passengers in regular short-distance transport and 125 million in regular long-distance transport... The number of passenger-kilometres in regular transport fell by 0.7% to 134.4 billion. Of that 98.7 billion were carried in regular short-distance transport and 35.7 billion passenger-kilometres in regular long-distance transport... (Photo from blog.cocoia: bus)

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SURVEY * USA - 92 Percent of Megabus.com Travelers Turn to Intercity Bus Service to Save Money

Reinvention of bus travel in a down economy leads to 4 millionth customer

New York,NY,USA -Reuters -Nov 4, 2009: -- A survey by megabus.com found that 92 percent of trheirs customers chose bus travel over other forms of transportation
to save money. An ongoing increase in the popularity of bus travel has helped megabus.com to recently serve its four millionth customer... After launching the first intercity bus service with fares as low as $1 in April 2006, it took two years for megabus.com to reach one million customers. However, with the decline of the economy, megabus.com's introduction of double-decker buses and service expanded to 28 cities, the company sold its most recent one million tickets in only five months... Not only are travelers switching to low-cost, express bus services such as megabus.com to save money, 83 percent say the low fares have allowed for them to travel more frequently, according to the survey... (Photo from boston.com: new Megabus)

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Statistics * Dubai/UAE - Public Transport Agency Lifts 83m Passengers In 9 Months

Dubai,UAE -Dubai City Guide -4 November 2009: -- Traffic & Roads Agency at Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai revealed that RTA public buses have lifted about 83 million passengers by the end of the third quarter of this year through more than 2 million journeys made by internal bus and inter-city bus services... Public Transport Agency is progressing ahead with a plan to broaden the reach of public bus routes network in the emirate of Dubai in keeping with the requirements of integrated transport with other modes such as the metro and marine transport modes. “Through beefing up its fleet of modern buses, the Agency is seeking to cover 95% of urban Dubai area with one and a half year from now” said Essa Abdul Rahman Al Dossari, CEO of RTA Public Transport Agency... (Photo from hotels-of-dubai: Tours, Dubai City bus)

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STATISTICS * USA - Motorcoaches America's Top Commercial People Mover, Study Finds

Washington,DC,USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -Jan. 27, 2009: -- The motorcoach industry is the number one commercial people mover in the United States, accounting for 751 million passenger trips in 2007, up nearly 20 percent from the previous figure of 631 million passenger trips in 2005, according to a newly updated industry census released today by the American Bus Association... The December 2008 study, "The Economic Impacts and Social Benefits of the U.S. Motorcoach Industry: Binding the Nation Together by Providing Diverse and Affordable Services to Everyone," was produced by research firm Nathan Associates Inc., and updates previous census reports issued in 2005 and 2006... "The motorcoach industry is the number one [commercial] people mover," the study reports. "In 2007, the industry provided 751 million passenger trips. The industry provided nearly 9% more passenger trips than commercial airlines (excluding foreign-flag air carriers) and 67% more than Amtrak and commuter rail combined"...

* Golden Gate Bridge traffic down, bus ridership up

San Francisco,CAL,USA -The Marin IJ, by Mark Prado -25 Jan 2009: -- If Golden Gate Bridge traffic has seemed a little lighter or Golden Gate Transit buses a little fuller in recent months, it's not your imagination... Traffic on the span dropped 3.6 percent from July through December compared with the same period in 2007, while bus ridership increased 3.9 percent in the six-month period, according to Golden Gate Bridge District figures released last week... (Photo)

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PASSENGERS' STATISTICS * UAE/Dubai - RTA Public Transport Agency Commutes More Than 94m Passengers In 2008

Dubai -Dubai City Guide -21 January 2009: -- The Public Transport Agency at Roads & Transport Authority revealed that till the end of last year it managed to commute more than 94 million passengers in more than 2 million trips by public transport buses operating over 85 routes... The CEO of Public Transport Agency Essa Abdul-Rahman Al-Dossari stated: “The aim is to provide a coverage spanning 95% of Dubai area in less than three years and raise the percentage of trips made by mass transit modes up to 30% by 2020” he said...

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STATISTICS * UK - New car sales fall 30% as more board the bus

Belfast,N.Ireland,UK -The Belfast Telegraph, by Linda McKee -16 January 2009: -- New car registrations plunged by almost a third last summer compared to the same time the previous year, new figures released by the Department of Regional Development have revealed... Meanwhile, the amount of petrol and diesel delivered to Northern Ireland between July and September 2008 plummeted 16%, from 206,264 tonnes the previous summer to 173,435... Only 12,974 new cars were registered, dropping from 18,803 the previous summer, and 2,442 new and used light goods vehicles were registered for the first time, a decrease of 29% on the corresponding quarter of 2007... Meanwhile, bus and rail passenger receipts showed an increase...

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STATISTICS * Australia - Brisbane's buses getting more crowded

New figures reveal a record demand for Brisbane's bus network as well as a worsening in the overcrowding crisis

Brisbane,Australia -ABC News -May 12, 2008: -- ... Figures for April show 1,800 buses could not stop to pick up more passengers, that was three times as many as the same time last year... There was also a record number of bus trips in April, the first time the figure has passed 7 million in a single month... The Brisbane City Council says the rise in bus overcrowding is due to a new way of collecting the figures...

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Data * New Zealand - Shows Wellington’s buses are 99.7 per cent reliable

But can it possibly be true? Happily, better monitoring is on the way

Wellington,New Zealand -Poneke's Weblog -April 4, 2008: -- ... Really? That’s what the official statistics from Greater Wellington Regional Council claim... Only 0.3 per cent of Go Wellington’s buses failed to meet reliability targets in January, the most recent figure available, according to data provided by Greater Wellington public transport divisional manager Wayne Hastie... That amounts to a minuscule 126 trips out of the 42,000 that operate each month on the Go Wellington network (formerly Stagecoach)... While that looks like a good result for what is a quiet month, the figures for most of 2007 were much the same...

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FIGURES * China - Buses transport 235 million Chinese during Spring Festival holiday

Beijing,China -Xinhua/www.chinaview.cn -Feb. 12, 2008: -- Buses transported 235 million travelers during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday in China, the Ministry of Communications said on Tuesday... The figure represents a 3.4 percent rise from the same period last year despite the worst winter storms in half a century leading to highway congestions in many parts of the country... The Ministry expected a record 2.15 billion bus trips, or five percent more than a year earlier, for family gatherings and holidays during the 40-day road transport peak from Jan. 23 to March 2...

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BUS SERVICES* USA - Bay Metro's ridership is up, despite having fewer routes

"Gas prices are crazy, man," he says, offering up his reasoning. "It's just been convenient catching a bus. I ride it almost every day now"

MI,USA -MLive.com/The Bay City Times, by Ryan J. Stanton -February 04, 2008: -- ... It's been more than two years since major cuts went into effect at the Bay Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Bay County's taxpayer-supported public transit system... But many riders haven't even noticed they're getting any lesser service... Reports obtained by The Times show that significant cutbacks made in 2005 are working out in a big way. In fact, ridership is higher than it's been in the last decade - partly a sign of a slow economy, officials say... Despite cutting back more than 8,200 hours of service and nearly 129,000 route miles traveled, Bay Metro annual rider figures are up by about 30,000 rides over the past two years... Bay Metro Transit had 30,000 more fares in 2007 than in 2005 (610,980 from 580,982) despite cutting routes and staff... (Photo by Alexander Cohn/Times: David Payne, right, watches Dave Andrews board the #7 bus at Meijer Friday morning. "I ride the bus every day," said fellow rider Jeannie Smith of Bay City. "I guess it runs like the post office, even in this mess," as snow falls on Friday morning)

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* Ireland - CIE share falling despite improvements

Donnybrook,Dublin,Ireland -RTE.ie -29 November 2007: -- A review of the €1.2 billion in Government subsidies paid to the CIE companies from 2001 to 2005 has found that while the number of people using public transport has increased, public transport's overall share of the market has declined. Dublin Bus passenger numbers also fell in 2005 for the first time in many years... The report by Booz Allen Hamilton also said constraints on bus numbers had limited the extent to which network coverage and services had been extended... In order to increase public transport numbers, BAH called for more investment in infrastructure, moves to increase bus priority, control of costs and more attractive fare policies and integrated ticketing... (VIDEO You Tube, by DaveSpencer32 -May 04, 2007: A trailer for PMP Dublin Bus Dvds)

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Figures * USA - PSTA ridership up as gas prices rise

County residents now turning to mass transit, even bicycles to get around

Pinellas County,FL,USA -The Tampa Bay Newspapers (Seminole,FL), by THOMAS MICHALSKI -9 June 2006: -- Ridership on Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus routes climbed by nearly 6 percent while passengers transporting bicycles rose by an astounding 50 percent, mainly due to the constantly escalating prices of gasoline... Rick Butler, a Pinellas Park city councilman and member of the PSTA board of directors, said in April 2006 860,581 people rode PSTA buses. The figure rose to 911,546 this past April, the last month for which statistics are available... “That represents a 5.9 percent increase in passengers,” Butler said. “It’s mainly due to the ever rising cost of gasoline that has peaked at $3-per-gallon”... (Photo: PSTA bus at St. Petersburg’s Tyrone Square Mall waits for passengers)

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