According to the latest figures, in 2018 OJSC Russian Railways transported 1.155 billion passengers on its own infrastructure, an increase of 3.4% on 2017.
Long-distance passengers amounted to 110 million, up by 7.9%, while suburban passenger numbers increased to 1.045 billion, a rise of 2.9% compared to 2017.
Passenger turnover on the Russian Railways’ network in 2018 increased by 5.2% compared to the previous year and amounted to 129.3 billion passenger-kilometres. Long-distance passenger turnover increased 5.7% to 96.2 billion pass-km, while suburban passenger turnover rose 3.7% to 33.1 billion pass-km.
According to the latest figures, the Company transported 94.4 million passengers in December 2018, 2.2% more than in the same month of 2017. Suburban passengers amounted to 86.2 million, a rise of 2%, while long-distance passenger numbers were up to 8.2 million, an increase of 4.2%.
Passenger turnover in December 2018 was 9 billion passenger-kilometres, 2% more than in December 2017. Long-distance passenger turnover was up 1.7% compared to the same month in 2017 and rose to 6.4 billion pass-km, while suburban passenger turnover increased to 2.6 billion pass-km, a rise of 2.8%.
In 2018, 129.5 million passengers travelled on the Moscow Central Ring, including more than 12.2 million people in December.
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