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MONORAIL FACTS AND FIGURES - 2

From the Cabalmaster:

The following list includes operating cost per passenger-mile for U.S. and Japanese fixed-guideway urban transit systems. This time, the "reference" statistics are annual passenger-miles per vehicle-mile. This is an indicator, although a rough one, of peak-period crowding. Systems are listed in "rank order."

Salt Lake City (LRT): $0.15, 33.0

San Diego (LRT): $0.17, 26.6

St. Louis (LRT): $0.21, 37.7

Tokyo-Eidan (HRT): $0.25, 67.4

Atlanta (HRT): $0.25, 23.4

New York-NYCT (HRT): $0.25, 25.7

San Francisco-BART (HRT): $0.26, 20.6

Hiroshima-Miyajima Line (LRT, 1999): $0.27, 20.2

Tokyo-Toei (HRT): $0.27, 63.2

Portland (LRT): $0.29, 27.9

Los Angeles (LRT): $0.29, 44.8

Philadelphia-PATCO (HRT): $0.31, 22.7

Tokyo Monorail: $0.31, 33.2

Chicago (HRT): $0.31, 18.0

Kobe (HRT): $0.32, 53.4

Washington, DC (HRT): $0.34, 24.7

Yokohama (HRT): $0.36, 47.6

Tokyo "Yurikamome" (ICTS): $0.37, 24.3

Osaka (HRT): $0.38, 50.4

Denver (LRT): $0.40, 19.3

Nagasaki (streetcar): $0.40, 25.3

Tokyo-Saitama "New Shuttle" (ICTS): $0.40, 15.6

Boston (HRT): $0.41, 22.9

Sacramento (LRT): $0.42, 20.6

Nagoya (HRT): $0.43, 45.1

Tokyo-Toei (streetcar): $0.43, 31.1

Philadelphia-SEPTA (HRT): $0.44, 24.7

New York-PATH (HRT): $0.46, 25.5

Miami (HRT): $0.46, 18.4

Cleveland (HRT): $0.46, 26.2

Hiroshima "Astram Line" (ICTS): $0.46, 14

Osaka "New Tram" (ICTS): $0.48, 26.7

Baltimore (LRT): $0.49, 21.6

Osaka Monorail: $0.49, 33.0

Fukuoka (HRT): $0.49, 73.0

Sapporo (HRT): $0.50, 34.2

Baltimore (HRT): $0.52, 16.7

Tokyo-Tokyu Corp (streetcar, 1999): $0.52, 43.1

Kitakyushu-Chikuho El Ry (LRT): $0.54, 13.7

Kitakyushu Monorail: $0.54, 22.2

Dallas (LRT): $0.55, 24.9

New Orleans (streetcar): $0.56, 19.7

Boston (LRT): $0.56, 25.0

Kyoto-Keifuku El Ry (streetcar, 1999): $0.57, 33.4

Hiroshima-Urban lines (streetcar, 1999): $0.59, 21.8

Enoshima El Ry (LRT): $0.60, 23.4

Sendai (HRT): $0.61, 42.9

Los Angeles (HRT): $0.62, 20.9

Tokyo-Tama Monorail: $0.63, 30.2

Kobe "Portliner" and Rokkoliner" (ICTS): $0.63, 15.1

Shonan Monorail: $0.63, 18.9

Cleveland (LRT): $0.64, 20.7

Philadelphia-SEPTA (LRT): $0.64, 20.0

Kagoshima (streetcar): $0.67, 21.2

Yokohama "Kanazawa Seaside Line" (ICTS): $0.68, 11.6

Kumamoto (streetcar): $0.69, 19.8

Takaoka (streetcar): $0.77, 10.6

Toyohashi (streetcar,1999): $0.77, 15.0

Toyama (streetcar, 1999): $0.78, 15.3

Okayama (streetcar): $0.83, 12.5

Kochi (streetcar): $0.83, 12.3

Osaka-Sakai (streetcar): $0.84, 18.0

Pittsburgh (LRT): $0.84, 18.2

San Francisco-Muni (LRT): $0.85, 25.2

Hakodate (streetcar): $0.92, 19.9

Kyoto (HRT): $0.92, 46.2

Buffalo (LRT): $0.94, 17.3

Chiba Monorail: $0.97, 25.3

New York-Staten Island (HRT): $0.97, 12.8

Seattle Monorail: $1.02, 10.7

San Jose (LRT): $1.07, 14.8

Otsu-Keihan El Ry (LRT, 1999): $1.08, 20.4

Sapporo (streetcar): $1.15, 19.3

Newark-Jersey City (NJT LRT): $1.27, 16.2

Gifu (streetcar, 1999): $1.37, 12.4

Matsuyama (streetcar, 1999): $1.44, 8.0

Komaki "Peachliner" (ICTS): $1.73, 3.6

Tokyo-Seibu Ry Yamaguchi Line (ICTS): 2.09, 6.6

Memphis (streetcar): $2.31, 3.3

Osaka-OTS Line (ICTS): $2.45, 8.1

Tokyo-Toei -- Ueno Park Monorail (1999): $2.65, 24.1

Seattle Waterfront Streetcar: $2.88, 11.1

Yukarigaoka (ICTS): $2.91, 3.9

Miami-Metromover (ICTS): $3.42, 4.5

Inuyama "Meitetsu Monkeyu Park Monorail": $4.10, 6.7

Nagoya-Guideway Bus: $5.06, 15.3

Detroit (ICTS): $6.07, 4.7

Jacksonville monorail, $10.71, 1.1

Hiroshima-Skyrail System (ICTS): $32.16, 1.1

Noote that the Japanese subways carry a larger number of pass-mi per veh-mi than U.S. heavy-rail systems. This stems from very high levels of peak-hour crowding and land-use patterns which tend to distribute short-distance trips over the length of the line rather than concentrating them at one end (or the middle, in the case of lines that run "through" the CBD).

NumberMan



posted by The Cabalmaster, Master of All Transit-dom 8/06/2002 05:09:00 PM