Economy11/09/2007Volume of passenger transportation in Uzbekistan up by 10.5 in 1H 2007
In January-June 2007 the number of passengers carried by all types of transport in the Republic of Uzbekistan was 2.26 billion persons and increased by 10.5% as against January-June 2006, according to the State Statistics Committee.
The passenger turnover increased by 12.8% and was 26.7 billion pass-km. The greatest share in passenger transportation and passenger turnover fell upon motor transport – 96.7% (2.19 billion persons) and 85.1% (22.7 billion pass-km) respectively.
In January-June 2007 the number of passengers carried by railway transport increased by 4.8% as compared to January-June 2006 and was 6.8 million persons, the passenger turnover increased by 9.6% and made up 1.17 billion pass-km.
608,900 persons were carried by air transport, which is 28.4% higher than in January-June 2006, the passenger turnover made up 2.41 billion pass-km and was 16.4% higher than in January-June 2006.
66.8 million persons were carried by urban electrical transport, which is 1.2% or 800,000 persons lower than in January-June 2006. This decline was caused by decrease of carriages of trolleybus transport and subway by 2.1% or 900,000 persons.