Public transport

Train kilometre

Distance in kilometres for trains and trams that are made up of more than one linked carriage.

Vehicle kilometre

Total distance in kilometres (i.e. including positioning run and other out of route journeys).

Passenger kilometre

Passenger kilometre is an inter modal transport statistic. It is found by mutliplying the number of passengers by their travelled distance.

Place kilometre

Total seating capacity and standing room multiplied by distance in route (i.e. excluding positioning runs and other out of route journeys).

Seat kilometer

A measure of of capacity in passenger transport. Found by multiplying the number of seats by the distance that these seats are beeing offered to passengers.

Vehicle hours

Total vehicle hours (including control times, positioning runs and other out of route journeys).

Ticket revenue

The traffic establishments’ revenues from public transport users’ purchase of travel tickets.

Fare (passenger)

One boarding, i.e. part journey.

Total expenditure

All ordinary costs related to running public transport, i.e. the sum of administration costs, operating costs and capital expenditure.

Subsidies

The authorities’ net subsidy for transport services, i.e. the total service subsidy (including remuneration for school bus services) where the operators run on net contracts and retain ticket revenues. Where the operators run on gross contracts, the authorities’ subsidy shall correspond to the sum of the contract minus the ticket revenues.

Utilisation of capacity

Passenger kilometres as a percentage of seat kilometres.

Cost absorption

Ticket revenues as a percentage of total costs. (out from 2015)

Statistics Norway’s current Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC2007) is based on the EU’s NACE standard.