Metro systems by annual passenger rides
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The following is a list of the top 16 metro systems in terms of passenger rides per year in the world:
- Tokyo Metro 2.819 billion (Note 1)
- Moscow Metro 2.603 billion (2005) [1]
- Seoul Metro 1.465 billion (2005) (Note 2)
- New York City Subway 1.449 billion (2006) [2]
- Mexico City Metro 1.442 billion (2004) [3]
- Paris Métro 1.336 billion (2004) [4]
- London Underground 976 million (2006) [5]
- Osaka Municipal Subway 912 million (2006) [6][7]
- Hong Kong MTR 858 million (2005) [8] (Note 3)
- Saint Petersburg Metro 821 million (2004) (Note 4)
- Cairo Metro 750 million (2001) (Note 4)
- Beijing Metro 679.76 million (2005) (Note 4)
- Madrid Metro 616 million (2004) (Note 4)
- Shanghai Metro 594.06 million (2005) (Note 4)
- São Paulo Metrô 512 million (2005) [9]
- Prague Metro 496 million(2004) [10]
[edit] Notes
- The figure is derived from ridership of two operators in Tokyo: Tokyo Metro Corporation 2.077 billion (Apr 2004-Mar 2005) [11] ; TOEI Subway 738 million (Jul 2003-Jun 2004) [12], thus passengers, transferred from one system to another are counted twice.
- The figure is derived from ridership of two operators in Seoul: Seoul Metro 873,192,785(Jan 2005 ~ Dec 2005)[13](in Korean), and SMRT 592,579,725(Jan 2005 ~ Dec 2005)[14](in Korean). This figure is only gate-passing numbers, so it is amount of pure-riding on the system. And passengers from station of KORAIL is excluded. If passenger`s figure by KORAIL in Seoul(not metropolitan area) were included, The figure is 1,808,994,125 at 2005. [15](in Korean) Beside, if the transferred from one line to another were counted twice, total passengers on this system(oparated by Seoul Metro & SMRT) at 2005 are 2.264 billion(cf. [16][in korean] or [17]).
- MTR Airport Express is excluded.
- Sources are requested for those figures.The deta of Shanghai and Beijing came form Statistics China.
