The chart below shows numbers of incidents and injuries per 100 million passenger miles travelled (PMT) by transportation type in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below shows numbers of incidents and injuries per 100 million passenger miles travelled (PMT) by transportation type in 2002.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
This
bar chart illustrates how many
incidents
and
injuries
were caused by using five different types of transportation per 100
million
passenger miles travelled (PMT) in 2002.
Overall
, the one feature that stands out is that demand response led to the highest number of both
incidents
and
injuries
in that year,
while
commuter
rail
was the safest type. Another noticeable feature is that
incidents
took place more often compared to
injuries
. Heavy
rail
, light
rail
and busses had the most similar trends among all five reported types. Heavy
rail
caused 51
million
incidents
per 100
million
PMT, but fewer
injuries
. Both light
rail
and busses caused 76
million
incidents
,
whereas
a significant difference was reported in
injuries
(39
million
and 66
million
, respectively). The most dangerous transportation was the demand response, which contributed to 225
million
incidents
and 173
million
injuries
. Commuter
rail
,
on the other hand
, had the lowest number of both
injuries
and
incidents
(20
million
injuries
and 17
incidents
).
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Passenger Miles Travelled (PMT)
  • incidents per 100 million PMT
  • injuries per 100 million PMT
  • transportation type
  • comparative measures
  • statistical analysis
  • proportionate level
  • anomalous data
  • discrepancies in safety figures
  • severity of incidents
  • frequency of occurrences
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