Square kilometers
The square kilometer is a unit of calculation in public passenger transport. It describes the product of the passenger seats offered by a transport company and the distance covered by the respective means of transport. Both seats (without a driver's seat) and standing room count as passenger space, based on a space requirement of 0.25 square meters per passenger.
The square kilometers serves as a basis for billing in transport associations of public transport requires . It does not take into account whether this offer was actually used.
The counterpart for calculating the power used is passenger kilometers .
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- ↑ Guideline for determining the capacity of passenger transport vehicles for statistical purposes ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , VDV 1990.
