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Economy
19/05/2009
Passenger transportation increases by 6.3% in Uzbekistan
Passenger transportation increases by 6.3% in Uzbekistan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) --
Number of passengers carried by all types of transport increased by 6.3% year-on-year and totaled 1.168 billion persons in the first quarter of 2009. The passenger turnover was 14.1 billion pass-km and increased by 8.5%.
The share of motor transport in passenger transportation and passenger turnover was the highest - 97.3% and 86% respectively.
The number of passengers carried by railway transport increased by 9.4% and was 3.4 million persons, the passenger turnover increased by 2.5% and totaled 613.8 million pas-km.
Over 408,300 persons were carried by air transport, which was 13.8% more than in January-March 2008, the passenger turnover totaled 1.192 billion pass-km and was 3.1% lower than in January-March 2008.
About 28.9 million persons were carried by urban electrical transport, which was 17.4% lower than in January-March 2008. Passenger transportation carried out by trolleybus transport decreased by 48.8% or 1.4 million persons, tram transport - by 24.2% or 3.2 million persons.
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