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A total of 227.7 million passengers were carried on scheduled bus services, 48.3 million passengers travelled on the Luas and 50.1 million passengers travelled by rail in 2019.

Iarnród Éireann carried 346,000 tonnes of freight in 2019. This was a drop of 170,000 tonnes (32.9%) compared to 2018.

The largest number of journeys by users of the bicycle sharing scheme in Dublin in 2019 was in the month of July when 376,758 journeys were made.

X-axis label	Number of bus passengers
2012	192.370
2013	191.111
2014	197.390
2015	200.994
2016	205.571
2017	217.605
2018	226.745
2019	227.698

Public transport (bus, Luas, rail)

Table 8.1 Summary of scheduled bus passenger services, 2012 - 2019
								'000
Scheduled services	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Passengers
Dublin city services	115,198	114,268	116,262	122,093	125,377	138,978	143,104	138,311
Provincial city and town services	16,728	17,651	18,641	19,352	20,578	20,178	22,995	26,699
Other scheduled services	20,046	18,076	18,547	18,509	19,108	17,683	19,070	20,074
School transport scheme	40,398	41,116	43,940	41,040	40,508	40,766	41,576	42,614
Total passengers	192,370	191,111	197,390	200,994	205,571	217,605	226,745	227,698

Vehicle kilometres
Dublin city services	57,372	50,137	48,714	54,784	55,320	57,350	54,906	43,421
Provincial city and town services	7,805	7,664	7,946	8,360	8,968	9,266	10,176	12,408
Other scheduled services	82,633	71,171	70,804	69,390	71,400	67,031	74,155	69,876
Total vehicle kilometres	147,810	128,972	127,464	132,534	135,688	133,647	139,237	127,752

Litres of fuel used
Dublin Bus - diesel	28,000	27,439	27,115	27,487	27,416	27,786	27,012	25,185
Bus Éireann - diesel	28,700	28,200	28,215	28,183	28,740	26,606	28,487	30,231
Total fuel used	56,700	55,639	55,330	55,670	56,156	54,392	55,499	55,416
Sources: Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus

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Table 8.2 Average daily flow of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann passengers by city services and time of day, 2019
Hour	% of daily flow
Hour	Cork	Galway	Limerick	Waterford	Dublin
00:00 - 06:59	2.1	1.6	0.4	0.3	3.6
07:00 - 07:59	6.2	4.6	4.7	2.5	7.5
08:00 - 08:59	6.6	6.8	7.1	7.9	8.4
09:00 - 09:59	5.5	5.4	6.1	6.8	5.3
10:00 - 12:59	19.1	19.4	22.7	25.8	15.2
13:00 - 15:59	23.4	23.7	26.1	29.0	19.3
16:00 - 16:59	9.0	8.5	8.8	8.8	8.2
17:00 - 17:59	8.7	7.7	8.0	6.7	9.2
18:00 - 18:59	6.4	6.8	5.9	4.0	7.3
19:00 - 21:59	9.8	11.2	7.8	6.6	11.8
22:00 - 24:00	3.2	4.2	2.4	1.6	4.2
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Sources: Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus

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Table 8.3 Average weekly flow of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann passengers by city services and day of week, 2019
					Number
Day of week	Cork	Galway	Limerick	Waterford	Dublin
Monday	44,456	15,875	10,190	1,517	392,598
Tuesday	49,301	17,338	10,961	1,729	422,732
Wednesday	50,315	17,567	11,562	1,895	445,867
Thursday	51,478	17,992	11,695	1,963	445,176
Friday	52,328	17,877	11,554	1,965	447,156
Saturday	35,569	13,068	7,997	1,154	297,418
Sunday	22,219	8,925	3,915	507	209,324
Total	305,666	108,642	67,874	10,730	2,660,271
Sources: Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus

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Table 8.4 Dublin Bus passenger numbers by month, 2015 - 2019
Month	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
January	9,577,528	9,857,291	10,468,427	11,419,534	11,216,738
February	9,596,458	10,700,553	10,718,425	11,279,304	11,107,751
March	10,543,380	10,701,987	12,051,139	11,067,489	11,959,588
April	10,041,339	11,091,977	10,841,832	12,046,319	11,285,530
May	9,371,545	10,825,747	11,771,832	12,737,152	11,811,474
June	9,470,674	9,957,220	10,986,482	11,490,525	10,569,888
July	10,317,027	10,480,109	11,629,833	12,074,231	11,760,960
August	9,537,133	10,243,169	11,342,248	11,679,839	10,931,243
September	10,979,884	8,559,909	12,432,529	12,448,501	11,898,080
October	11,432,628	11,236,567	12,546,921	13,240,113	12,611,911
November	11,052,013	11,318,902	13,024,610	12,765,522	12,239,821
December	10,172,946	10,403,922	11,163,861	10,855,955	10,917,996
Total	122,092,555	125,377,353	138,978,139	143,104,484	138,310,980
Source: Dublin Bus

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Table 8.5 Dublin Bus fleet by garage, 2018 - 2019
Number
Depot	2018			2019
Depot	Low floor buses	Other buses	Total	Low floor buses	Other buses	Total
Donnybrook 1	113	0	113	116	0	116
Donnybrook 2	115	0	115	110	0	110
Ringsend	110	0	110	111	0	111
Conyngham Road	97	0	97	99	0	99
Summerhill	103	0	103	104	0	104
Clontarf	81	0	81	81	0	81
Phibsboro	177	0	177	183	0	183
Harristown	215	0	215	212	0	212
Total	1,011	0	1,011	1,016	0	1,016
Source: Dublin Bus

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Table 8.6 Bus Éireann passenger numbers, 2015 - 2019
Million
	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
City/town services
Cork city	11.7	12.6	12.3	13.9	15.9
Galway city	4.0	4.3	4.2	4.7	5.7
Limerick city	2.8	2.9	2.8	3.5	3.9
Waterford city	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.2

Stage carriage/commuter	10.9	11.5	10.6	12.3	13.9
Expressway/eurolines	7.0	6.9	6.3	6.4	6.1
Schools	41.0	40.5	40.8	41.6	42.6
Other services	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.4	0.1
Total	78.9	80.2	78.6	83.6	89.4
Source: Bus Éireann

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Table 8.7 Bus Éireann fleet, 2015 - 2019
				Number of buses
	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Expressway/eurolines	180	148	144	146	151
Stage carriage/commuter	308	312	325	332	330
City/town services
Cork city	88	103	104	130	130
Limerick city	22	35	36	40	32
Galway city	26	38	38	44	39
Waterford city	11	12	12	17	17
Sligo town	6	6	6	7	7
Navan town	3	3	3	2	2
Athlone town	3	3	3	8	9
Dundalk, Drogheda, Balbriggan	7	7	7	13	25
Other services	10	10	9	8	1
Total	664	677	687	747	743
Source: Bus Éireann

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Table 8.8 Number of licensed bus operators by county, 2015 - 2019
County	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Carlow	21	20	19	18	20
Cavan	59	56	51	46	48
Clare	69	65	64	58	61
Cork	133	131	123	120	119
Donegal	126	128	127	126	124
Dublin	234	229	227	228	225
Galway	128	129	130	130	132
Kerry	104	105	104	102	99
Kildare	89	80	74	72	76
Kilkenny	31	32	32	30	29
Laois	40	41	40	41	37
Leitrim	21	20	21	20	20
Limerick	71	67	69	70	72
Longford	20	19	20	18	18
Louth	51	49	49	49	53
Mayo	92	90	89	91	86
Meath	107	110	103	101	97
Monaghan	42	41	38	37	36
Offaly	36	38	38	33	30
Roscommon	38	35	33	32	34
Sligo	31	31	26	28	27
Tipperary	78	77	71	72	70
Waterford	29	28	25	28	30
Westmeath	31	34	33	32	27
Wexford	65	67	64	67	66
Wicklow	72	67	65	68	65
Total	1,818	1,789	1,735	1,717	1,701
Source: Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

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Table 8.9 Luas passenger numbers by month and line, 2019
Month	Red line	Green line	Total
January	1,747,263	1,911,221	3,658,484
February	1,846,358	1,881,251	3,727,609
March	2,052,087	2,017,037	4,069,124
April	1,916,485	1,910,278	3,826,763
May	1,992,879	2,010,593	4,003,472
June	1,918,687	1,832,037	3,750,724
July	2,099,060	2,031,550	4,130,610
August	1,932,572	1,848,823	3,781,395
September	2,049,264	2,117,538	4,166,802
October	2,231,185	2,271,134	4,502,319
November	2,225,847	2,270,870	4,496,717
December	2,034,057	2,199,155	4,233,212
Total	24,045,744	24,301,487	48,347,231
Source: Transport Infrastructure Ireland

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Table 8.10 Luas infrastructure, 2019
	Red line	Green line
Length of line	20.8km	22.0km
Journey time	55 minutes	66 minutes
Number of trams	37	36
Length of tram	40.8 metres	43.6/54.7 metres
Capacity of tram	291	319/408
Passengers carried	24,045,744	24,301,487
Vehicle kilometres	2,380,373	1,940,386
Passenger kilometres	108,205,848	196,842,045
Average length of journey	4.5km	8.1km
Average number of stops per passenger	7	7
Timeliness (% services to timetable)	97.51%	98.75%
Source: Transport Infrastructure Ireland

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Table 8.11 Average weekly flow of Luas passengers by day of week and line, 2019¹
			Number
Day of week	Average red line	Average green line	Average Total
Monday	65,429	68,044	133,473
Tuesday	70,434	74,471	144,905
Wednesday	72,341	77,667	150,008
Thursday	76,716	80,878	157,594
Friday	79,414	82,514	161,929
Saturday	53,190	47,486	100,676
Sunday	43,538	34,841	78,379
Total	461,062	465,901	926,964
Source: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
¹ Data based on the period 1/1/2019 to 31/12/2019

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Table 8.12 Percentage of daily Luas passengers by hour and by line, 2019
			%
Hour	Green line	Red line	Total
05:00 - 05:59	0.43	0.53	0.48
06:00 - 06:59	2.50	3.07	2.79
07:00 - 07:59	8.41	7.38	7.90
08:00 - 08:59	13.71	11.27	12.49
09:00 - 09:59	6.75	7.16	6.96

10:00 - 10:59	3.59	5.16	4.38
11:00 - 11:59	3.09	4.54	3.82
12:00 - 12:59	3.88	4.95	4.42
13:00 - 13:59	4.24	6.11	5.18
14:00 - 14:59	3.72	5.51	4.62

15:00 - 15:59	5.32	6.30	5.81
16:00 - 16:59	7.98	8.85	8.42
17:00 - 17:59	11.80	8.78	10.29
18:00 - 18:59	9.02	7.30	8.16
19:00 - 19:59	4.88	4.23	4.56

20:00 - 20:59	3.90	3.26	3.58
21:00 - 21:59	2.68	2.45	2.57
22:00 - 22:59	2.01	1.88	1.94
23:00 - 23:59	1.49	1.06	1.28
00:00 - 00:59	0.61	0.21	0.41

Total¹	100.01	100.00	100.01
Source: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
¹ Totals may not sum to 100 due to rounding

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Table 8.13 Summary of passenger and freight traffic by rail, 2014- 2019
						'000
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Passengers
Mainline and other services	10,230	10,490	10,772	11,557	12,438	13,179
Dublin suburban services	10,584	10,962	11,954	12,696	13,299	13,997
DART services	15,949	17,150	18,987	20,077	20,934	21,560
Cross border services	1,041	1,058	1,103	1,175	1,290	1,324
Total	37,804	39,660	42,815	45,505	47,960	50,060

Passenger kilometres	1,862,793	1,916,722	1,989,798	2,120,987	2,281,083	2,398,555

Freight traffic tonnes	578	540	581	546	516	346

Freight traffic tonne kilometres	99,827	96,406	101,480	100,399	88,551	71,640
Source: Iarnród Éireann

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Table 8.14 Principal commodities conveyed by rail, 2014 - 2019
Thousand of tonnes
Commodity	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Ale, beer, stout	0	0	0	0	0	0
Beet and beet pulp	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cement	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fertiliser	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mineral ores	339	299	334	291	297	139
Petrol and oil	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wood and cork	59	63	58	52	45	49
General freight	180	178	189	203	174	158
Total	578	540	581	546	516	346
Source : Iarnród Éireann

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Table 8.15 Rail infrastructure, 2014 - 2019
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Length of lines, total [line km]	1,894.0	1,894.0	1,894.0	1,894.0	2,045.0	2,045.0
Length of lines, passenger [line km]	1,679.0	1,679.0	1679.0	1679.0	1679.0	1679.0
Length of lines in single track [line km]	1,208.0	1,208.0	1,208.0	1,208.0	1,579.0	1,579.0
Length of main track [main track km]	2,384.0	2,384.0	2,384.0	2,384.0	2,384.0	2,384.0
Length of electrified main track [main track km]	107.5	107.5	107.5	107.5	107.5	107.5
Number of passenger stations [passenger stations]	144	144	144	144	144	144
Source: Iarnród Éireann

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Table 8.16 Bicycle sharing scheme data for Dublin, 2018 - 2019
						Number
Month	2018	2019	2018	2019	2018	2019
Month	Long term subscriptions¹		Short term subscriptions		Number of journeys
January	1,028	1,056	542	633	277,641	310,040
February	906	1,042	738	712	270,019	306,048
March	831	1,105	772	824	250,631	312,728
April	1,318	1,200	1,417	1,142	299,454	306,800
May	1,414	1,393	2,102	1,324	359,842	353,848
June	1,701	1,850	1,930	1,344	355,956	317,061
July	1,708	1,617	2,256	1,581	379,439	376,758
August	1,429	1,377	2,004	1,727	361,489	344,806
September	1,706	1,724	1,473	1,163	347,396	344,768
October	1,324	1,188	1,290	829	371,443	335,818
November	852	759	809	510	327,085	276,103
December	716	531	918	594	258,487	231,874
Total	14,933	14,842	16,251	12,383	3,858,882	3,816,652
Source: JCDecaux
¹ Data refers to new memberships each month

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Table 8.17 Bicycle sharing scheme data for Cork, Galway and Limerick, 2018¹
										Number
	Annual subscriptions²				Short-term subscriptions³			Number of journeys
	Cork	Galway	Limerick	Multi-city	Cork	Galway	Limerick	Cork	Galway	Limerick
January	11,388	3,350	2,964	233	26	23	15	17,048	2,195	1,717
February	11,425	3,377	2,978	234	38	12	23	19,876	2,984	1,961
March	11,500	3,400	2,994	235	52	15	70	18,689	2,391	2,054
April	11,554	3,455	3,024	236	71	13	96	21,122	3,040	2,425
May	11,655	3,524	3,055	236	118	31	175	22,024	3,612	2,906
June	11,786	3,573	3,076	238	207	41	235	21,326	3,774	2,707
July	11,920	3,629	3,098	239	199	38	226	23,645	4,678	2,899
August	12,036	3,603	3,122	239	149	54	176	22,125	3,655	2,579
September	12,375	3,635	3,157	243	126	30	104	26,384	3,860	2,405
October	13,362	3,665	3,166	252	87	31	82	33,470	3,753	2,515
November	13,431	3,833	3,194	254	30	21	22	28,169	3,194	2,039
December	13,466	3,843	3,199	253	51	9	41	17,703	1,869	1,565
Source: National Transport Authority for 'Coca Cola Zero Bikes'
¹ Data for 2019 was not available at the time of publication
² Figures represent cumulative annual membership numbers at the end of each month
³ Short-term refers to the three day/temporary membership
Note: A user can be a member in more than one city.

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