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passenger mile

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Pas´sen`ger mile
1.(Railroads) A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

One passenger transported one mile. For air and ocean transport, use nautical miles; for rail, highway, and inland waterway transport in the continental United States, use statute miles.


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A revenue passenger mile represent one paying passenger flown one mile.
ATA Airlines Scheduled Service Statistics May 2007 2006 Change Revenue Passenger Miles (RPMs) (000s) 350,559 319,766 9.
 
 
 
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