China's railways handle over 1.3 billion passenger trips in first half of 2021

[letsrock]

Thanks.

I made a check on the Indian Railway Yearbook 2019-20, the suburban train transports 4,597 million passengers in 2019-20, with the passenger-km at 137,130 million passenger-km, i.e. the per passenger distance is 29.8km only. I'm not sure about the intension of the passengers why they take such a short distance trip by train, but guess daily commute must be a big portion behind.

No that guy @Protest_again is lying through his teeth. A common symptom among indians. suburban in india will be considered as commuter rail anywhere in the world. In fact the common name is "local" rail/

 

[nahtanbob]

China's railways handle over 1.3 billion passenger trips in first half of 2021

a better metric is passenger-kilometers. it is cumulative distance travelled by all passengers

I actually believe his number:

When we Chinese usually drive our cars to destinations within a few 100s of kilometers distance, indians have to ride the 'suburban' train like the one above to get even 10 km away and feel proud of...

in densely populated urban areas train is the only option to travel 10 km