APPENDICES
APPENDIX 46
(Chapter 14: Transport)
Registered and Licensed Motor Vehicles
As at end of year
1997
1998
1999
Registered
Licensed
Registered
Licensed
Registered
Licensed
Public service vehicles
Public buses
China Motor Bus Company Kowloon Motor Bus Company
{1}
823
816
3.839
3 834
3.990
3 988
4 078
4 064
New Lantao Bus Company
80
77
87
82
86
86
Citybus
590
561
937
937
960
959
Long Win Bus Company
(2)
22
22
163
160
160
159
New World First Bus (1)
841
703
946
730
Others
5 630
5 349
5 868
5 526
5 943
5 647
Public light buses
4 350
4 335
4 350
4 343
4 350
4 343
Taxis
18 136
17918
18 138
18 053
18 138
18 008
Private vehicles
Motor cycles
Motor tricycles
Private cars
Private buses
31 212
23 511
32 004
23 343
33 079
24 258
0
0
0
0
0
0
348 450
314 833
359 694
318 137
365 533
321 617
Private light buses
Goods vehicles
Special purpose vehicles
423 2392
404
437
423
447
431
2 230
2 297
2 158
134 861
406
118 279 370
132 785
457
115 051 406
2 228 130 374 503
2101
113 770
433
Government vehicles (excluding
military vehicles)
Motor cycles
Other motor vehicles
Total
1.308
6 381
1 308 6381
1 238
1 238
6 125
6 125
1 264 6 104
1 264 6 104
558 903
500 228
569 411
500 673
574 193
503 974
Notes: (1) China Motor Bus Company ceased operation and New World First Bus started operation on 1.9.1998.
(2) Long Win Bus Company started operation on 1.6.1997.
Not applicable.
Public Transport: Passenger Journeys by Undertaking
Kowloon Motor Bus Company
China Motor Bus Company (1)
Thousand journeys
1997
1998
1999
1 051 102
1 034 351
1 060 011
176 449
104 920
New Lantao Bus Company
Citybus
5 923
147 750
6 208
183 295
Long Win Bus Company (2)
2 883
14 364
5 449 202 955
16 901
Kowloon-Canton Railway Bus
39 251
37 872
22 031
New World First Bus ("
46 958*
160 371
Mass Transit Railway Corporation
811 897
797 530
789 705
Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation-East Rail
262 024
269 443
276 248
Light Rail Transit
126 185
114 474
114 712
Hongkong Tramways
101 908
92 893
87 864
Peak Tramways Company
4 246
3 321
Green Minibus
353 839
361 829*
3 277 365 631 #
Residential Coach Services
40 741
39 753*
Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company
29 990
22 756
'Star' Ferry Company
32 477
30 025
40 528 # 15 195 28 679
Minor Ferries
9 113
9 959
Red Minibus (3)
226 835*
217 479*
13 374 207 354
Taxi (3)
473 636
477 109
Total (4)
3 896 247*
3 864 538*
478 155
3 888 430 #
Notes: (1) China Motor Bus Company ceased operation and New World First Bus started operation on 1.9.1998.
(2) Long Win Bus Company started operation on 1.6.1997.
(3) Estimates.
Figures may not add up to total due to rounding.
Revised figure.
#
Provisional figure.
Not applicable.
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