Indian Railways Passenger Traffic during 2002-12

Indian Railways is a commonly used mode of public transportation in the country. During 2002-12, passengers carried increased by 6% CAGR from 4970803 thousand in 2002-03 to 8224384 thousand in 2011-12. During 2011-12, it carried 8224384 thousand passengers as against 7651090 Thousand in 2010-11 thus registering a volume growth of 7.5%.

During 2011-12, passenger kilometres, which calculated by multiplying the number of journeys by mean kilometric distance was 1046522 million, up by 7.0% from 978508 million in the previous year.