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MONORAIL FACTS AND FIGURES - 5

From the Cabalmaster:

The following list shows U.S. and Japanese fixed-guideway urban transit systems arranged by rank: annual passenger-miles per staff member, together with annual average vehicle occupancy (passenger-miles per vehicle-mile). For once the "best" is not a U.S. system. However, the vehicle-occupancy figures for some Japanese systems are much higher than any likely value for a U.S. or Canadian transit system -- rail or non-rail.

Tokyo-Eidan (HRT): 1,070,374 annual veh-mi per staff member, 67.4 pass-mi per veh-mi

Tokyo "Yurikamome" (ICTS): 1,029,274 --- 24.3

Tokyo Monorail: 887,927 --- 33.2

Tokyo-Toei (HRT): 852,101 --- 63.2

Sapporo (HRT): 726,108 --- 34.2

Kobe (HRT): 677,233 --- 53.4

Osaka Monorail: 659,119 --- 33.0

Yokohama (HRT): 615,755 --- 47.6

Osaka "New Tram" (ICTS): 605,248 --- 26.7

St. Louis (LRT): 588,436 --- 37.7

Fukuoka (HRT): 564,856 --- 73.0

Sendai (HRT): 564,460 --- 42.9

Osaka (HRT): 526,425 --- 50.4

Kyoto (HRT): 495,976 --- 46.2

Hiroshima "Astram Line" (ICTS): 488,718 --- 14

Salt Lake City (LRT): 482,254 --- 33.0

Nagoya (HRT): 478,318 --- 45.1

Tokyo-Tama Monorail: 459,022 --- 30.2

San Diego (LRT): 447,194 --- 26.6

Los Angeles (LRT): 438,615 --- 44.8

Kobe "Portliner" and Rokkoliner" (ICTS): 372,234 --- 15.1

San Francisco-BART (HRT): 357,516 --- 20.6

Yokohama "Kanazawa Seaside Line" (ICTS): 345,424 --- 11.6

Osaka-OTS Line (ICTS): 305,474 --- 8.1

New York-PATH (HRT): 289,454 --- 25.5

Philadelphia-PATCO (HRT): 288,341 --- 22.7

Kitakyushu-Chikuho El Ry (LRT): 286,396 --- 13.7

Tokyo-Saitama "New Shuttle" (ICTS): 283,427 --- 15.6

Atlanta (HRT): 279,066 --- 23.4

Boston (HRT): 271,031 --- 22.9

Portland (LRT): 270,053 --- 27.9

New York-NYCT (HRT): 263,660 --- 25.7

Washington, DC (HRT): 258,333 --- 24.7

Chicago (HRT): 253,148 --- 18.0

Sacramento (LRT): 250,640 --- 20.6

Philadelphia-SEPTA (HRT): 247,806 --- 24.7

Kitakyushu Monorail: 236,526 --- 22.2

Chiba Monorail: 235,025 --- 25.3

Miami (HRT): 221,859 --- 18.4

Los Angeles (HRT): 221,485 --- 20.9

Denver (LRT): 220,490 --- 19.3

Shonan Monorail: 211,686 --- 18.9

Enoshima El Ry (LRT): 201,216 --- 23.4

Nagasaki (streetcar): 200,019 --- 25.3

Hakodate (streetcar): 193,964 --- 19.9

Cleveland (HRT): 187,661 --- 26.2

Boston (LRT): 179,461 --- 25.0

Baltimore (LRT): 163,233 --- 21.6

Kumamoto (streetcar): 160,910 --- 19.8

Baltimore (HRT): 155,834 --- 16.7

Kagoshima (streetcar): 155,490 --- 21.2

Osaka-Sakai (streetcar): 142,661 --- 18.0

Seattle Monorail: 138,577 --- 10.7

San Francisco-Muni (LRT): 137,922 --- 25.2

New Orleans (streetcar): 137,341 --- 19.7

Cleveland (LRT): 133,900 --- 20.7

Takaoka (streetcar): 130,763 --- 10.6

Tokyo-Seibu Ry Yamaguchi Line (ICTS): 125,997 --- 6.6

Hiroshima-Miyajima Line (LRT, 1999): 124,987 --- 20.2

Buffalo (LRT): 108,264 --- 17.3

Dallas (LRT): 106,544 --- 24.9

Philadelphia-SEPTA (LRT): 102,582 --- 20.0

Okayama (streetcar): 91,652 --- 12.5

Pittsburgh (LRT): 89,556 --- 18.2

Newark-Jersey City (NJT LRT): 88,720 --- 16.2

New York-Staten Island (HRT): 88,059 --- 12.8

Kochi (streetcar): 85,710 --- 12.3

San Jose (LRT): 83,742 --- 14.8

Komaki "Peachliner" (ICTS): 58,577 --- 3.6

Inuyama "Meitetsu Monkeyu Park Monorail": 49,502 --- 6.7

Yukarigaoka (ICTS): 29,840 --- 3.9

Miami-Metromover (ICTS): 29,782 --- 4.5

Seattle Waterfront Streetcar: 23,277 --- 11.1

Memphis (streetcar): 23,194 --- 3.3

Detroit (ICTS): 22,868 --- 4.7

Jacksonville monorail: 6,273 --- 1.1

Nagoya-Guideway Bus: 4,063 --- 15.3

Hiroshima-Skyrail System (ICTS): 3,485 --- 1.1


posted by The Cabalmaster, Master of All Transit-dom 8/09/2002 04:16:00 PM