The bar chart compares the information on incidents and injuries for every 100 million passenger miles traveled on five different types of public transportation in 2002.
Overall, it is readily apparent that the number of incidents and injuries recorded from the demand response vehicles shows an upward tendency, contrasting sharply with commuter rails, which exhibit the lowest figures.
The figures for incidents and injuries are recorded at a total of 225 and 173 per 100 million passenger miles traveled occurring on demand-response transport services. Those figures were nearly three times as high as those for bus services, which is the second highest category. There were reported 76 incidents and 66 people injured on buses, indicating a dramatic disparity compared to demand response transportation.
Turning next to light rail, the number of incidents on these services equaled the figure recorded for buses, but only 39 injuries performing significantly fewer. Heavy rail services witnessed lower numbers of such events than light rail services. Remarkably, commuter rail services demonstrated the highest safety standard in the survey, with only 20 incidents and 17 injuries, respectively. This shows that rail services experienced fewer problems.