INS: 2.5 pct more passengers used the Bucharest metro in 2016

The number of passengers transported with inter-city transport and internationally went up by 8 percent year-on-year in 2016, the majority of them being transported with buses and microbuses as part of the public transport system, according to data gathered by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

In 2016, a total of 384 million passengers were transported, with 4.4 percent being registered in international transport (16.9 million percent). Road transport held the biggest share (78.9 percent), followed by rail transport (16.8 percent).

According to INS data, rail passenger transport decreased both in terms of the number of passengers as well as in terms of the distance covered, compared to 2015, by 3 percent and 3.1 percent respectively.

Road traffic decreased by 9.9 percent in regards to the number of passengers transported, while the distance covered went up by 7.3 percent year-on-year. In international sea transport, there were 7,000 passengers and nationally there were 153,000.

Air transport recorded a number of 16.4 million passengers; 14.6 percent of them took international flights.

The average distance per passenger was lower than in 2015 for all means of transport, down by 11 percent in domestic navigable routes, 2.4 percent in road transport and 0.1 percent in rail transport.

The number of passengers transported by metro increased by 2.5 percent year-on-year.