In January-March 2007 the number of passengers carried by all types of transport was over 1.11 billion persons and increased by 9.2% as against January-March 2006. The passenger turnover increased by 11.3% and was 13.2 billion pass-km.
The greatest share in passenger transportation and passenger turnover fell upon motor transport – 96.6% (1.07 billion persons) and 85% (11.2 billion pass-km) respectively, according to the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan.
In January-March 2007 the number of passengers carried by railway transport increased by 3% as compared to January-March 2006 and was 3.6 million persons, the passenger turnover increased by 11.3% and made up 625.4 million pas-km.
253,900 persons were carried by air transport, which is 23.3% higher than in January-March 2006, the passenger turnover made up 1.15 billion pass-km and was 21.3% higher than in January-March 2006.
34.5 million persons were carried by urban electrical transport, which is 3.7% or 1.3 million persons lower than in January-March 2006. This decline was caused by decrease of carriages of trolleybus transport and subway by 6.6% or 1.5 million persons.