Metro systems by annual passenger rides

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The most-used metro systems in terms of passenger rides per year:

1. Tokyo Subway (Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway) 2.916 billion (2006) ^{[1][2](Note 5) (Note 6)}
2. Moscow Metro 2.529 billion (2007) ^[3]
3. New York City Subway 1.850 billion (2006) ^[4]
4. Seoul Subway 1.654 billion (2006) ^{(Note 1)}
5. Mexico City Metro 1.417 billion (2006) ^[5]
6. Paris Métro 1.409 billion (2006) ^{[6] (Note 7)}
7. London Underground 1.268 billion (2007)^{[7](Note 2)}
8. Hong Kong MTR 1.072 billion (2007/08) ^{[8](Note 3)}
9. Osaka Municipal Subway 877.8 million (2007) ^[9]
10. São Paulo Metro 845 million (2007) ^[10]
11. Shanghai Metro 814 million (2007) ^[11]
12. Beijing Metro 765 million (2006) ^[12]
13. Cairo Metro 750 million (2001)^{[citation needed]}
14. Madrid Metro 690 million (2007) ^[13]
15. Santiago Metro 680 million (2006/7) ^[14][15]
16. Kiev Metro 642 million (2007)^[16]
17. Saint Petersburg Metro 602 million (2006)^[17]
18. Prague Metro 531 million (2006) ^[18]
19. Singapore Mass Rapid Transit 524 million (2006) ^[19]
20. Vienna U-Bahn 476.6 million (2007) ^[20]

[edit] Notes

1. The figure is derived from ridership of two operators in Seoul: Seoul Metro 1,061,532,456 (Jan 2006 ~ Dec 2006)^[21], and SMRT 592,882,234 (Jan 2006 ~ Dec 2006)^[22]. This figure counts only gate-passers, so it only includes the two systems' riders. Passengers from Incheon Subway, Korail metropolitan railroad system and A'REX are excluded. (2.279 billion if all included)
2. Intercity, Light Rail & Feeder Bus excluded. MTR Lines, Airport Express and Cross-boundary (not to be confused with Intercity) included. The latter two lines are urban, electric mass transit railways within Hong Kong, completely independent from other traffic, and with high capacity and service frequency (6-12 minute headways).
3. Does not include ridership on Docklands Light Railway (60 million), London Overground and National Rail journeys within Greater London.
4. The data of Shanghai and Beijing came from Statistics China.^{[citation needed]} According to theirs metro pages, it seems to be so low.
5. Japanese rapid transit systems are mostly neither metros nor "subterranean" as opposed to European systems. For total rail transit ridership, Greater Tokyo (130 lines) and Greater Osaka (70 lines) transport far more daily passengers than anywhere else on earth.
6. The Tokyo subway network is made up of two separate operators: Tokyo Metro, a private company, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, a government agency.
7. The figure for Paris only includes the "métro". Traffic including the RER lines operated by the RATP reaches 1863 million passengers yearly.

[edit] References

1. ^ Toei Subway System
2. ^ Tokyo Metro | Company Outline
3. ^ Moscow metro oficial site
4. ^ APTA ridership stats
5. ^ Ciudad Mexico
6. ^ RATP
7. ^ MTR Summation of the monthly total from May 2007 to Apr 2008
8. ^ Transport for London
9. ^ Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau: Budget
10. ^ METRÔ BATE RECORDE DE PASSAGEIROS - Intelog - Inteligência em Gestão Logística - NEWS LOG - MULTIMODALIDADE
11. ^ 2007年上海市国民经济和社会发展统计公报
12. ^ BJ Subway
13. ^ Spanish Statistics National Institute INE
14. ^ metrosantiago
15. ^ SubTV / Nuestro Publico
16. ^ Киевский метрополитен увеличит пассажиропоток
17. ^ Saint Petersburg Metro
18. ^ Czech DPP
19. ^ http://www.lta.gov.sg/corp_info/doc/Average_Daily_Public_Transport_Ridership.pdf
20. ^ Verkehrsclub Österreich
21. ^ ▒서울 메트로▒
22. ^ ::서울특별시도시철도공사::

[edit] See also

• List of rapid transit systems
• Metro systems by number of stations
• List of urban rail systems by length
• List of North American Rapid Transit Systems by ridership