The chart above shows the number of annual riders for every subway station in each EU and US state. One million annual riders is the equivalent of 2,740 riders a day. So Ohio has 904 daily riders for every station while Hungary has 23,425.
Findings
- The difference between the state with the most annual riders per subway station, Hungary, and the state with the least (that has a subway system), Ohio, is 8.22 million.
- Hungary has 25.91 times the annual riders per subway station that Ohio does.
- Italy has seven subway systems, France has six, the United Kingdom and Germany each have four, Spain has three, and the Netherlands has two, all other states have one. Pennsylvania and California have two subway systems, New York has three, all other states have one.
- The median number of annual riders per station in the EU states that have a subway is 3.53 million and the mean 3.98 million.
- The median number of annual riders per station in the US states that have a subway is 1.68 million and the mean 1.91 million.
- The median number of annual riders per station in the EU and US states that have a subway is 2.89 million and the mean 3.21 million.
Caveats
- Data is from 2017.
- Hawaii is currently working on building a subway system for Honolulu which is expected to have 2.02 million annual riders per station.
- Greece is currently working on building a subway system for Thessaloniki which is expected to have 3.44 million annual riders per station which would bring Greece down to 4.01 million riders per station.
- All figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth.
Details
The five subway stations with the most annual riders per station are all in the EU. The five stations with the least annual riders per station are all in the US. Only one US state, New York, ranks in the top ten. California and Georgia are the only non-Northeastern US states that best EU states in this metric.
This metric shows how heavily used subway systems are by providing an average number of riders for every subway station in the system. Hungary's Budapest Metro has the most annual riders per station in the EU and the US. New York's PATH has the highest in the US and third highest in the EU and US, bested by the Czech Republic's Prague Metro. On the other end, Ohio's RTA Rapid Transit Red Line has the least annual riders per station in both the EU and the US. Italy's Catania Metro has the lowest in the EU and is third from last in both the EU and the US right behind New York's Staten Island Railway.
Sources
Wikipedia. 2019. "List of Metro Systems." Accessed February 24, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems.