The table below gives information about rail transport in four contries in 2007.
The table shows data about railroad transportation in Malaysia,
Canada
, China
and the UAE
in 2007. Overall
, China
had the largest number
of people
who use rail
transport
, accompanied by the longest kilometres
per head of population taking, while
the smallest figures for people
taking rail
transport
and the shortest distance per person taking can be seen in Canada
. However
, Canada
had the largest cargo-carried ability.
In terms of the number
of people
using rail
transport
, the figure for China
was 27 million
, which was significantly higher than the other three countries, almost five times as large as the figure for the second-largest country-Malaysia (5.9 million
). This
was followed by the UAE
, with the number
of people
at 5.5 million
. Canada
had the smallest number
of people
who takes rail
transport
, with only 0.3 million
people
.
Regarding passenger kilometres
per person taking, China
presented the longest distance, which was 1980 kilometres
. The UAE
and Malaysia had similar data, and the figures for them were 780 and 770 kilometres
respectively, whereas
Canada
only had 80 kilometres
per person, which was considerably shorter than the other three nations.
Interestingly, Canada
had the largest cargo-carried capacity (28.20 tons
), followed by China
(23.01 tons
) and Malaysia (22.2 tons
), slightly higher than the UAE
(21.9 tons
).Submitted by tfhe1112 on
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