The passenger transport sector in the wake of the pandemic had a severe blow to its finances. The world came to a standstill and with confinement I sent all people to their homes, so these companies changed their operation during confinement: fewer routes, frequencies and services.
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In the case of public transport, the figures were discouraging, however, already through the path of economic reactivation and the recovery of jobs, the numbers have stabilized.
In colombia There are seven Integrated Systems of traMass Transport (SITM), distributed in Bogotá (Transmilenio), Barranquilla (Transmetro), Cartagena (Transcaribe), Medellín (Metroplús), Pereira (Megabús) and Bucaramanga (Metrolínea), and to date, they are already on the path to recovery.
According to the Ministry of Transportation, including data from the Medellín Metro, these seven transportation systems achieved a mobilization of 772,594,397 trips in the first half of 2022.
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Systems recovery
With cut to May, the mass transportation system of Bogotá, TransMilenium, it is only 7.8 percentage points away from reaching all users mobilized in the first five months of 2019, prior to the pandemic, when 450 million validations were registered (every time a person passes the card through the system), compared to 415 million for the same period in 2022, which implies a recovery of 92.2%.
From the company they detail that of the total mobilizations, 217 million were registered in the zonal component and 198 million in the trunk component. With this recovery dynamic, Transmilenio obtained revenues of $826,000 million as of May.
Compared to the same period in 2021, the validations registered in the Bogotá mass transportation system in its three components (trunk, zonal and cable), were positioned at a recovery of 80%.
Megabús: the second most recovered
With 81.4%, Megabus de Pereira It is the second Mass Transportation System that registers the greatest recovery for the period January to May 2022 with 13,100,972 users mobilized in the five months, compared to more than 16 million during the period in 2019, a year in which the figure was 16,080 .966.
As of December 2021, the figure reached 56.3%.
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Transcaribe: 79.7% of mobilized users
According to data from Transcaribe, ‘the heroic’ advances aboard its Mass Transportation System, with 12,286,377 people who were mobilized between January – May 2022, and with this figure it reaches almost 80% of its reactivation, compared to the 15,416,592 people transported in the same period of 2019.
Furthermore, they explain thatof the nearly 1,100,000 inhabitants of Cartagena de Indias, 9% use the system on a regular basis”.
Trans-Caribbean.
Reactivation of MINE reaches 52.3%
The Massive Integrated of the West (MINE) It is halfway to reaching the levels of people mobilized in the system during the first five months of 2019, when it obtained a total of 56 million.
This is because as of May 2022, 29,314,108 users were mobilized in the MIO; same month that registers the highest number of mobilizations, with more than 6,650,000 people, according to the company.
For the company Metro Cali S.A., owner of MY “the current demand for the system is 260,000 users per day”. In which “around 500 policemen are transported daily in the massive, as well as approximately 400 workers of the system”.
And they clarify that “taking into account the population density of the city (…) registered in the census at approximately 2,500,000 citizens, users who use the system on a regular basis represent approximately 11% of the population”.
MÍO transport system, in Cali.
Metroline reports the least reactivation
With 4,867,665 people mobilized between January and May 2022, the Bucaramanga Integrated Mass Transportation System (Metroline) The figure for the period in 2019 has not yet reached 50%, when it registered 13,828,360 users. In 2022 the figure reached 4,867,665.
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About Barranquilla (Transmetro) and Medellín (Metroplús), Passenger figures are at the semi-annual level.
In the case of Barranquilla, in 2022 more Atlanticenses returned to mobilize aboard Transmetro.
During the first half of the year, 13,047,831 people in Barranquilla and its metropolitan area, used the system. Which positions it with a reactivation of 74.6% for the first half of 2019, a period in which it reported 17,490,103 mobilized users, according to the company.
The company also ensures that compared to the same period of 2021 vs. 2019, the figures show a recovery in the use of this transport by 58%.
transmeter adds that according to studies prior to the pandemic, the company, in its history, mobilizes between 15% and 17% of total trips of public transport of the district of Barranquilla and its metropolitan area.
With a 93% reactivation, the Integrated Mass Transportation System, Metroplús, which provides its services to Medellín and the Aburrá Valley, is looking to fully recover the levels of users who used the System during January – June 2019 .
Having that for the first semester of 2022 it registered 141,800,000 users who used its transport services, compared to 152,400,000 in the same period in 2019.
In addition, for the first semester of 2021 it registers an increase of 58% compared to 2019. This Transportation System reports income of $220.7 million for May 2022.
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