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 Passengers carried (No.) by light railway carrier enterprises
Characteristic Description
Name Passengers 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 February 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Underground system
Concepts
  • PASSENGER TRANSPORTED:  Person transported along the entire course or part of it, excluding the staff at service of the vehicle.
  • UNDERGROUND RAIL NETWORK:  Underground and/or surface rail network, which constitutes an urban passenger transport system with underground vehicles and consists of exclusive lines separate from other types of traffic connecting the different stations that make it up.
  • RAIL PASSENGER:  Any person, excluding members of the train crew, who makes a journey by railway vehicle.
  • 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 06/05/2025


information presented in 9/5/2025