Talk:Rail usage statistics by country

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The United Kingdom statistics are well out of date - the latest passenger-km figure is more like 40 billion.

I have seen more up-to-date figures on another website - will try to find it and post a link.

- the other website is the UIC (Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer). It has (for some countries) data for as recently as 2005, whilst the World Bank figures are at best from 1999, and in some cases from earlier than that.

I will try to create another table based on UIC figures, using WB figures where necessary. This will be in addition to the existing table which is useful as a "snapshot" from 1999.

The paragraph after the passenger tables is badly worded. We do need a disclaimer but perhaps something like this:-

"Caution should be applied when analysing these rail usage statistics. In some cases not all rail operations in a country are included (example - Italy - "private" rail companies such as the Circumvesuviana are not included despite carrying large numbers of passengers, and in Canada suburban systems such as GO around Toronto are not included despite carrying many times the number of passengers, and significantly more passenger-km, than the long-distance Via Rail network). Sometimes metro or subway systems are included, but this is not always the case (eg - in the USA they are included, in the UK, France and Japan they are not). In some countries statistics are very much out of date or not available at all. However for most of the countries where rail forms a significant part of passenger transport the statistics here give a rough indication of the scale of passenger operations"

Exile 13:43, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

The frieght-traffic figure seems erroneous to me as it refers to "England" - I highly doubt any such figure is available for only England and not the United Kingdom. If there were two figures, the UK one would be the most appropriate to use. WelshGandalf 14:28, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brazil

I updated freight-traffic figures, but i am not able to found sources for South America (especially Brazil). If someone found some, feel free to add it. --Jklamo 01:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)