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Nordpil 2010. Ticket prices by UBS (Prices and Earnings , 2009, PDF , p. 20). Gauge, voltage, train width, and non-numerical data by Mike Rohde. Cities found their way into the list according to Metrobits' criteria .
# 1 Tokyo 3,102 million Japan Metro Yurikamome Waterfront line, rubber-tyred Yurikamome line Marunouchi, Mita, Namboku, Yurakucho, Yurikamome lines yes yes 2 Seoul 2,518 million South Korea Subway lines 2 and 9, planned for all lines by 2010 yes yes 3 Beijing 2,460 million China Subway PGDs on lines 5, 13. PSDs on lines 8, 10 yes all lines 4 Moscow 2,389 million Russia Metro lines 3, 5 since 2009 5 Shanghai 2,276 million China Metro newer line 4 stations and refitted line 1 stations yes 6 Guangzhou 1,825 million China Metro APM line (underground people mover) Zhujiang people mover yes yes yes 7 New York 1,655 million USA Subway yes 8 Mexico City 1,609 million Mexico Metro yes 9 Paris 1,524 million France Métro lines 1, 14, rubber-tyred lines 1, 4, 6, 11, 14 lines 1, 13 (part), 14 lines 1, 2, 5, 9 lines 1, 2, 5, 7bis, 9, 14 10 Hong Kong 1,444 million Hong Kong S.A.R. MTR Disneyland Resort Line SI, WI lines, planned all underground stations yes yes 11 London 1,171 million United Kingdom Underground Docklands Light Rail Jubilee Line extension Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines Metropolitan Line, DLR 12 Sao Paulo 877 million Brazil Metrô line 4 lines 2, 3, 4 (since 2010) all metro lines and regional rail lines 4, 5 13 Cairo 837 million Egypt Metro 5 stations 14 Osaka 836 million Japan Subway Nanko Port Town Line, rubber-tyred Nanko Port Town Line all stations on the Nanko Port Town Line yes 15 Singapore 794 million Singapore MRT North-East Line, Circle Line, Downtown Line, and the 3 rubber-tyred LRT lines LRT lines yes yes yes 16 Saint Petersburg 786 million Russia Metro windowless steel doors in ten stations 17 Taipei 652 million Taiwan MRT Wenshan (Muzha) VAL line Line 1 PGDs in the busier MRT stations, PSDs in all VAL stations yes yes 18 Santiago 640 million Chile Metro yes yes 19 Madrid 635 million Spain Metro tests in 2010, plans for 2011 yes yes 20 Delhi 606 million India Metro Line 5, Airport Metro Express yes yes 21 Vienna 534 million Austria U-Bahn yes yes 22 Prague 530 million Czech Republic Metro yes 23 Kiev 519 million Ukraine Metro 24 Berlin 505 million Germany U-Bahn yes 25 Caracas 485 million Venezuela Metro yes 26 Tehran 480 million Iran Metro yes 27 Nagoya 427 million Japan Subway Tobu Kyuryo maglev line Tobu Kyuryo maglev line yes yes 28 Barcelona 389 million Spain Metro lines L9, L10, L11 lines L9, L10, L11 yes yes 29 Munich 360 million Germany U-Bahn yes 30 Manila 346 million Philippines MRT yes yes 31 Nanjing 344 million China Metro Line 2 yes yes 32 Athens 342 million Greece Metro yes yes 33 Rome 331 million Italy Metropolitana yes yes 34 Milan 328 million Italy Metropolitana line M5 line M5 yes yes 35 Busan 320 million South Korea Subway Line 4 Line 4 line 3 36 Stockholm 309 million Sweden Tunnelbana 37 Buenos Aires 308 million Argentina Subte yes 38 Budapest 302 million Hungary Metro 39 Minsk 281 million Belarus Metro 40 Toronto 278 million Canada Subway yes 41 Lyon 257 million France Métro line D/Maggaly, rubber-tyred, no PSDs yes 42 Kharkov 250 million Ukraine Metro 43 Bangkok 245 million Thailand Skytrain, MRT Green line Green line, Blue line yes 44 Chicago 222 million USA "L" yes 45 Montreal 219 million Canada Metro yes 46 Washington 218 million USA Metrorail yes 47 Rio de Janeiro 212 million Brazil Metrô yes 48 Sapporo 209 million Japan Subway yes yes 49 Hamburg 199 million Germany U-Bahn DT5 type train sets DT5 type train sets 50 Yokohama 198 million Japan Subway Kanazawa Seaside line, LRT, rubber-tyred Kanazawa Seaside LRT Kanazawa Seaside LRT line yes 51 Baku 183 million Azerbaijan Metro 52 Lisbon 183 million Portugal Metro yes 53 Kolkata 173 million India Metro Railway 54 Bucharest 171 million Romania Metro 55 Medellin 170 million Colombia Metro 56 Boston 147 million USA The T yes 57 Warsaw 140 million Poland Metro 58 Monterrey 138 million Mexico Metro yes 59 Brussels 133 million Belgium Métro line 1 60 Shenzhen 132 million China Metro yes yes yes 61 Daegu 127 million South Korea Subway lines 1, 2 62 Kyoto 126 million Japan Subway Tozai line yes 63 Fukuoka 124 million Japan Subway yes yes 64 Kobe 121 million Japan Subway Port Liner and Rokko Liner, rubber-tyred Port Liner and Rokko Liner Port Liner and Rokko Liner yes 65 Vancouver 120 million Canada SkyTrain Skytrain, LIM technology, currently the world's longest automated system yes yes 66 Nuremberg 118 million Germany U-Bahn lines U2, U3, no PSDs, sharing tracks with driver-operated trains yes 67 Ankara 113 million Turkey Metro metro line yes yes 68 San Francisco 111 million USA BART yes Wide sliding doors between cars since the 1970s 69 Dubai 109 million United Arab Emirates Metro metro metro, monorail yes yes 70 Kuala Lumpur 109 million Malaysia LRT, Monorail LRT KLIA line to airport, Kelana Jaya line's underground stations yes 71 Philadelphia 107 million USA Subway yes 72 Chengdu 103 million China Metro yes yes 73 Toulouse 103 million France Métro VAL yes VAL yes 74 Lille 96 million France Métro VAL yes VAL, all stations yes 75 Bilbao 90 million Spain Metro yes yes 76 Incheon 89 million South Korea Subway yes 77 Tbilisi 88 million Georgia Metro 78 Rotterdam 87 million Netherlands Metro 79 Amsterdam 85 million Netherlands Metro M5 type train sets M5 type train sets 80 Istanbul 78 million Turkey Metro Seyrantepe station on line M2 some lines some lines 81 Novosibirsk 76 million Russia Metro 82 Oslo 76 million Norway T-Bane yes 83 Marseille 75 million France Métro yes 84 Wuhan 73 million China Metro 85 Tashkent 65 million Uzbekistan Metro 86 Tianjin 64 million China Metro platform gate doors yes 87 Izmir 63 million Turkey Metro 88 Helsinki 62 million Finland Metro yes 89 Xian 59 million China Metro yes 90 Sendai 58 million Japan Subway yes 91 Brasilia 55 million Brazil Metrô 92 Copenhagen 54 million Denmark Metro all metro lines all underground stations all metro and S-Tog trains yes 93 Kaohsiung 52 million Taiwan MRT MRT 94 Rennes 47 million France Métro VAL yes VAL yes 95 Los Angeles 46 million USA Metro Rail yes 96 Dalian 44 million China Metro 97 Daejeon 38 million South Korea Subway yes 98 Newcastle 38 million United Kingdom Tyne & Wear Metro 99 Yekaterinburg 38 million Russia Metro 100 Pyongyang 36 million North Korea Metro 101 Naples 35 million Italy Metropolitana 102 Atlanta 34 million USA MARTA yes 103 Turin 33 million Italy Metropolitana VAL yes VAL yes yes 104 Santo Domingo 29 million Dominican Republic Metro yes 105 Sofia 29 million Bulgaria Metro 106 Kazan 27 million Russia Metro 107 Nizhny Novgorod 27 million Russia Metro 108 Valencia 21 million Venezuela Metro 109 Baltimore 18 million USA Metro Subway yes 110 Gwangju 18 million South Korea Subway yes 111 Hiroshima 18 million Japan Monorail yes 112 Miami 18 million USA Metrorail downtown people mover, rubber-tyred Downtown people mover yes 113 Yerevan 17 million Armenia Metro 114 Samara 16 million Russia Metro 115 Glasgow 13 million United Kingdom Subway 116 San Juan 11 million Puerto Rico Tren Urbano 117 Dnepropetrovsk 9 million Ukraine Metro 118 Almaty 7 million Kazakhstan Metro 119 Cleveland 6 million USA Rapid Transit 120 Adana Turkey Metro 121 Algiers Algeria Metro yes yes 122 Antwerp Belgium Premetro 123 Bangalore India Metro 124 Belo Horizonte Brazil Metrô 125 Bielefeld Germany Stadtbahn 126 Bochum Germany Stadtbahn 127 Bonn Germany Stadtbahn 128 Brescia Italy Metro metro 129 Buffalo USA Metro Rail 130 Bursa Turkey Bursaray 131 Catania Italy Metropolitana 132 Changchun China LRT 133 Changsha China Metro 134 Charleroi Belgium Métro Léger 135 Chennai India MRTS 136 Chiba Japan Monorail 137 Chongqing China Monorail The three underground stations (Daping, Linjiangmen, and Jiaochangkou) have PSDs yes yes 138 Cologne Germany Stadtbahn new light rail trains only yes 139 Detroit USA People Mover downtown people mover, LIM technology yes 140 Dongguan China Metro 141 Dortmund Germany Stadtbahn H-Bahn yes 142 Duesseldorf Germany Stadtbahn yes 143 Duisburg Germany Stadtbahn yes 144 Edmonton Canada Light Rail 145 Esfahan Iran Urban railway 146 Essen Germany Stadtbahn yes 147 Frankfurt Germany U-Bahn yes 148 Fuzhou China Metro 149 Gelsenkirchen Germany Stadtbahn 150 Genoa Italy Metropolitana yes 151 Guadalajara Mexico Metro 152 Haifa Israel Carmelit 153 Hangzhou China Metro 154 Hanover Germany Stadtbahn yes 155 Harbin China Subway 156 Jacksonville USA Skyway downtown monorail people mover 157 Jaipur India Metrorail 158 Kamakura Japan Monorail 159 Kitakyushu Japan Monorail yes 160 Kryvyi Rih Ukraine Metrotram 161 Kunming China Metro yes 162 Las Vegas USA Monorail monorail yes 163 Lausanne Switzerland Metro line m2 line m2 Line m2 yes 164 Lima Peru Tren Urbano 165 Ludwigshafen Germany Stadtbahn 166 Malaga Spain Metro 167 Maracaibo Venezuela Metro yes 168 Mashhad Iran Urban railway 169 Mecca Saudi Arabia Metro yes yes yes 170 Muelheim Germany Stadtbahn 171 Mumbai India Suburban Railway 172 Naha Japan Monorail 173 Nanchang China Rail Transit 174 Nanning China Metro 175 Newark USA Light Rail 176 Ningbo China Metro Line 1 177 Oporto Portugal Metro yes yes 178 Palma de Mallorca Spain Metro 179 Panama City Panama Metro 180 Perugia Italy Minimetro Minimetro 181 Pittsburgh USA T 182 Porto Alegre Brazil Metro 183 Poznan Poland Fast Tram 184 Qingdao China Metro 185 Recife Brazil Metrô 186 Rouen France Métro 187 Saint Louis USA Metrolink 188 Salvador Brazil Metrô yes 189 Seattle USA Light Rail yes 190 Seville Spain Metro Line 1 191 Shenyang China Metro yes 192 Shiraz Iran Metro 193 Stuttgart Germany Stadtbahn yes yes 194 Suzhou China Subway yes 195 Sydney Australia Cityrail yes 196 Tabriz Iran Metro 197 Tama Japan Monorail yes 198 The Hague Netherlands RandstadRail 199 Valencia Spain Metro yes yes 200 Valparaiso Chile Metro 201 Volgograd Russia Metro 202 Wuppertal Germany Schwebebahn 203 Wuxi China Metro 204 Zhengzhou China 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