This report will describe a bar chart showing the statistics about rail transport’s usage in six European countries.
At first glance, it can be seen that the proportion of kilometers of routes and passengers may vary between Paris, Lisbon, and Rome, although mostly in other cities more distant routes attract more passengers.
Looking in more detail, both Madrid and Berlin had the shortest railway routes, 11 km in 1981 and 28 km in 2001, respectively. In this regard, people using rail transport were relatively low in these cities: 45 million for Madrid and 50 million for Berlin. Similarly following the same pattern, Stockholm’s railway route was 199 kilometer long in 1900, attracting in the region of 1191 million residents.
However, this trend cannot be attributed to other three cities’ railway systems. In Lisbon, for instance, distance of route (155 km) is about half as much as in Paris (394 km), even though it attracts threefold more passengers per year, 1927 million and 775 million, accordingly. In comparison, while in Rome there are as much kilometers in route as in Lisbon, 126 and 155 respectively, only 144 million passengers using Italian railway system.