The passenger transport statistics is a short-term monthly statistic whose objective is to provide information on the number of transported passengers. Information is offered on urban and interurban transport.

Urban transport is that which begins and ends within urban area or areas which can be urbanised, defined in agreement with urban legislation, or which is exclusively dedicated to communicating different urban areas located within the same municipality.

URBAN TRANSPORT BY BUS STATISTIC

This covers passengers transported by every company, both public and private (municipal companies) that carries out this activity. The information is broken down by autonomous communities (as long as statistical secrecy facilitates this).

URBAN TRANSPORT BY METRO STATISTIC

This covers exhaustive information on the total of travellers transported by the Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao Metropolitan Companies.
In the case of urban transport the study is exhaustive for all companies.

Inter-city transport is that which is carried out between urban areas belonging to different municipalities.

2.1.1 NORMAL TRANSPORT

This is carried out within a pre-established itinerary and subject to prefixed timetables and calendars. Passengers are picked up at fixed stops. To carry out this type of transport, an administrative concession is required.
Transport services destined exclusively to serve a specific group of users, such as students or workers, are included.

Stratification, in the case of regular road transport, is carried out based on three class variables: the number of annual passengers, the number of active workers and total annual income:

• Stratum 1: companies with less than 500,001 annual passengers and less than three employees.
  
  
• Stratum 2: companies with less than 500,001 annual passengers and number of employees between three and nine, both inclusive.
  
  
• Stratum 3: companies with less than 500,001 annual passengers and number of employees between ten and forty nine, both inclusive.
  
  
• Estrato 4: Stratum 4: companies with more than 500,001 and less than 2,000,000 annual passengers and less than fifty employees.
  Moreover, those that have more than 9,000,000 euros income will be studied exhaustively.
  
  
• Stratum 5: companies with more than 2,000,000 annual passengers and companies with less than 500,001 annual passengers and more than forty nine employees. Those that belong to stratum 1 also belong to this stratum but they have more than 1,000,000 euros in income and those that belong to strata 2, 3 and 4 but have more than 9,000,000 annual income.
  
  

2.2.DISCRETIONAL TRANSPORT SURVEY

Discretional transport is that which carries out non-regular passenger transport services, in other words, without any itinerary or schedule (for example, discretional bus service for trips).

In the case of discretional transport companies, stratification is carried out based on the same variables as for regular transport. In the same way as the previous case, the last stratum, stratum six, is exhaustive and for the rest of the strata there is a sample proportional to stratum size. There are six population strata:

• Stratum 1: companies with less than 1,000,001 annual passengers and less than three employees.
  
  
• Stratum 2: companies with less than 1,000,001 annual passengers and number of employees between three and five, both inclusive.
  
  
• Stratum 3: companies with less than 1,000,001 annual passengers and number of employees between three and five, both inclusive.
  
  
• Stratum 4: companies with less than 1,000,001 annual passengers and number of employees between ten and nineteen, both inclusive.
  
  
• Stratum 5: companies with less than 1,000,001 annual passengers and number of employees between twenty and forty nine, both inclusive.
  
  
• Stratum 6: companies with more than 1,000,000 annual passengers, companies with less than 1,000,001 annual passengers and more than 1,000,000 euros in income and discretional transport companies belonging to strata 2, 3, 4 and 5 with more than 9,000,000 euros in income.
  
  

The urban transport statistic provides information broken down by autonomous community (in the case of urban transport by bus and as long as statistical secrecy permits this) and company (in the case of transport by metro). Information is offered nationally for intercity transport.

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