The chart illustrates the rate of incidents and injuries per 100 million passenger miles travelled of various commuting methods in 2002.
Overall, demand-respond vehicles attained the highest rate of accidents and injuries, while the opposing can be said for commuter rail. Also, the tally for incidents always surpassed that of injuries.
Looking closer at the bar chart, in 2002, demand-respond services witnessed on average 230 accidents per 100 million PMTs, whereas 174 accidents was recorded using the same index. In comparision, these numbers are three times more than those of bus, which stood at approximately 60-70 per a hundred million PMT. Light rail vehicles also showed the same rate of accidents as bus, however the figure for accidents was less than half of its counterpart.
Moving on to the remaining two modes of transport, one can observe that the quantity for all categories was 50 or less. Regarding commuters by heavy rail, they suffered a casualty rate of exactly 50 individuals for each 100 billion miles travelled. This is followed by the figure for injuries which totalled around 35 per 100 million PMT. Finally, commuter rail observed the lowest amount of any types listed, with the incidents and people wounded numbering at around 18 and 15, respectively.
