Weekly Bulletin issue no. 51-52, 1996

More passengers and lower subsidies

Altogether 286 million passengers travelled by bus in Norway last year. This is two per cent more than the year before. The bus companies' income from ticket sales dropped 1.7 per cent, to NOK 3,313 million. At the same time, government subsidies were reduced nearly three per cent to NOK 1,462 million.

New Statistics

Bus statistics, 1995.
Statistics are published annually in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics and Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Transport and Communication Statistics. More information: Karin Berg, tel. +47 62 88 54 16, e-mail: kab@ssb.no or Jan Monsrud, tel. +47 62 88 54 07, e-mail: jam@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 51-52, 1996