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 Passengers-kilometer carried (No.) by light railway carrier enterprises
Characteristic Description
Name Passengers-kilometer carried (No.) by light railway carrier enterprises by Underground system; Monthly
Regularity Monthly
Source Statistics Portugal, Subway transport survey
First available period January 2004
Last available period January 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Underground system
Concepts
  • PASSENGER-KILOMETRE:  The unit of measure representing the transport of one passenger over a distance of one kilometre.
  • RAIL PASSENGER-KILOMETRE:  Unit of measure representing the transport of one rail passenger by rail over a distance of one kilometre.
  • UNDERGROUND:  Electric railway for the transport of passengers, under the ground and above, mainly in urban areas, with the capacity for a heavy volume of traffic and characterized by exclusive rights-of-way, multi-car trains, high speed and rapid acceleration, sophisticated signalling, large number of stations (usually at intervals of 700m - 1200 m) and absence of level crossings to allow a high frequency of trains and high platform load.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  3
Observations
Last update date 01/04/2025


information presented in 23/4/2025