HE urban transportation grew by 23.6% and carried 247.58 million passengersintercity increased by 24.5% to 112.43 million. Within the latter, the INE highlights: 33.2% increase recorded by Air transportation.
Compared to the previous month, the number of public transport users increased by 2.8%, well below what happened in the previous two years, where this increase was approximately 13% (in 2022) and 10.8% (in 2021).
Urban Transportation
According to INE, more than 247.5 million passengers used urban transport, 23.6% more than the previous year, last February.
This Metro services increased by 26.4% at an annual rate. Palma grew the most with 88.7%, while Bilbao grew the least with 16.3%. Among the cities with a metro, the highest increase in bus transportation was recorded in Valencia with 45.3%, the least increase was recorded in Bilbao with 13.5%.
city transportation bus increased by 21.6% Compared to February 2022, the INE grade stands out. According to the autonomous communities, all offered positive annual rates in bus transport led by the Canary Islands (39.9%); Valencian Community (35.8%) and Murcia (27.5%). In contrast, the smallest increases were recorded in Catalonia (14.8%), Galicia (16.6%) and the Basque Country (17.7%).
intercity transportation
Also, multiple 112.4 million passengers used intercity transportation It means an increase of 24.5% in February compared to the same month of 2022. Air transport by type of transport 33.2%; maritime, 26.1%; rail, 25% and bus, 23.7%. Cercanías rose 22.2% in bus transport and 22.6% in rail, while medium-haul bus travel increased 27.2% and train travel 75.9%.
Regarding long distance, bus transport grew by 31.6% and rail by 18.6%, and in the latter Alta Velocidad increased by 21.6%.
Private and on-demand transport
Moreover 40.9 million users used private and on-demand transportation This meant an annual increase of 3.6%.
The number of private transportation passengers decreased by 7.5% and exceeded 29.2 million, among which school transportation decreased by 7.2% and business transportation by 8.7%. On-demand transportation, on the other hand, increased 47.7% compared to the same month of 2022, with more than 11.7 million users.