More than 16 million passenger trips were recorded in the Baku Metro in October.
elchi reports that the “Baku Metro” CJSC informed Teleqraf that a total of 556,424 passengers used the “Khojasan” and “Avtovagzal” stations, which are free of charge, during the month. This represents a 64 percent increase compared to September.
The “Koroglu” station received the most passengers in October. Specifically, 1,683,032 passengers used the services of this station.
The highest passenger flow during the month was recorded on October 20. On that day, 641,442 people used the metro.
An increase was also observed in the use of digital payment methods. In October, a total of 8,879,685 payments were made using NFC and QR tickets. This is 15.9 percent more than in September.
Furthermore, in October, payment of fare using NFC technology accounted for 43.3 percent of all paid passengers.
In addition, 113 people benefited from the “Accessible Metro” service, implemented to expand accessibility for passengers, during the month.