More than 430.0 million passengers used public transport in December, 12.1% more than in the same month of 2022.
The annual rate for city transport increased by 15.4% and for inter-city transport 10.1% . Within the latter, it is worth noting the 15.6% rise in the bus transport.
In the year 2023 as a whole, the number of passengers that used public transport exceeded 5,188.6 million, which represents an increase of 18.2% compared to 2022.
Percentage
City transport was used by more than 272.5 million passengers in December, 15.4% more than in the same month of 2022.
Metro transport increased by 11.8% in annual rate and City transport by bus increased by 18.2% in December.
More than 122.9 million passengers used inter-city transport in December, representing a 10.1% increase as compared with the same month of 2022.
By mode of transport, the bus transport increased by 15.6%, the maritime transport by 7.3%, and the rail transport by 4.6%, whereas the air transport decreased by 11.5%.
Annual rate. Percentage
1Local rail includes RENFE and all autonomic rail operators. Long-distance rail includes AVE, AVLO, OUIGO and IRYO.
More than 34.5 million passengers used special and unscheduled transport in December, indicating a decrease of 2.9% in annual rate.
The number of special transport passengers decreased by 8.7%, reaching more than 22.1 million users. Within this, school transport decreased by 7.4% and work transport did so by 12.2%.
Finally, unscheduled transport increased by 9.6% as compared with the same month of 2022, with more than 12.4 million passengers.
All the Autonomous Communities showed positive annual rates.
The highest increases were showed in Región de Murcia (57.2%), Canarias (35.9%) and Extremadura (27.1%).
In turn, Galicia (6.5%), País Vasco (8.4%) and Cataluña (14.5%) showed the lowest increases in bus transport.
Annual rate. Percentage
1In order to maintain statistical secrecy, data of Autonomous Communities of Illes Balears, Cantabria, Comunidad Foral de Navarra and La Rioja, and the Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla are not separately published.
Metro transport increased in all cities with this type of transport as compared with the same month of the previous year. Málaga's metro registered the highest increase (139.4%), and Bilbao's registered the lowest (9.1%).
On the press release day, INE has updated PT data for the same month of the previous year. Results are available at INEbase.
The purpose of the Passenger Transport Statistics (PT) is to provide monthly information regarding the number of passengers transported by city transport (bus and metropolitan), inter-city transport (road, rail, air and sea) and special and unscheduled bus transport.
Road transport in researched through a simple survey. For rail transport, the number of passengers is calculated using the information provided by the railway operators (RENFE and other autonomous companies). The information for air transport is provided by Civil Aviation, and for sea transport, the number of passengers disembarked is compiled using information from State Ports.
Further information is available in the methodology and in the standardized methodological report.
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