passenger mile
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[edit]passenger mile (plural passenger miles)
- A basic unit used by transport companies for calculating profit levels etc. It is calculated by multiplying total distance travelled in a given period by the number of passengers.
- Coordinate term: ton-mile
- 2019 October, Roger Ford, “Class 365 fleet state-owned”, in Modern Railways, page 34:
- Remember, in 1993 BR was fighting its way through a recession which would see passenger miles fall to the lowest level since Bob Reid launched the business-led railway.
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