What is the safest mode of transport: plane, bus or train? What is the safest mode of transport.
Choosing what to get from point A to point B, we take into account 2 factors - speed and safety. Long trips narrow the range of choices vehicle. Today we will discuss the degree of danger of popular modes of transport.
Public opinion
"What is the most safe transport? - this was the question asked by VTsIOM sociologists. Monitoring was carried out for 3 years. Throughout the time, the opinion of Russians has not changed much. Considered safe:
- Metro - 69%;
- bus and tram - 68%;
- trains - 51%;
- cars -48%;
- trolleybus - 40%;
- ferries - 38%.
It is interesting to see how the attitude of people towards air travel has changed. In 2011, only 22% of respondents named the aircraft as the safest mode of transport. The following year, the number increased to 33%, and in 2013 it fell to 16%.
Director of the center V. Fedorov notes that information affects the indicators. Major air crashes in 2013 caused a drop in citizens' confidence in aircraft.
Statistics
Official data differ from the position of ordinary Russians. First, let's find out how the death rate is determined for different vehicles.
There are several methods. The most accurate and common is the calculation of the number of deaths per 100 million km or 160 million miles.
Each transport group has the safest types of cars, motorcycles, etc. But the average option "as a whole" is taken. American Bureau of Statistics DERT in 2000. calculated the crude death rate as follows:
- Aircraft - 0.5;
- buses - 0.4;
- trains - 0.6;
- minibuses - 1.2;
- water transport - 2.6;
- cars - 3.1;
- bicycles - 44.6;
- on foot - 54.2;
- motorcycle - 108.9.
Based on the coefficient of flights - 0.5, a person needs to fly 200 million km in order for him (according to statistics!) to have an accident. According to statistics, the most safe view transport is an airplane. It is followed by rail and water transport. In order not to be unfounded, I will take the latest reports as a basis.
Tracking aviation accidents has been run by the aviation-safety.net website since 1996. From June 1 to November 1, 2017 in the world crashed or committed emergency landing 117 aircraft, 279 people died.
In the first five months of this year, in Russia alone, 5,770 people died as a result of road accidents and another 71,461 were injured. Even the safest cars are not able to reduce this number.
According to regnum.ru, for 5 months the trains had the least results: 41 people were killed, 172 were injured.
Planes take to the air every 3 seconds. Therefore, the figures are quite comparable and give a general idea of the number of victims over the same period of time. About 1,000 people die every year from air transport crashes. railway- up to two thousand.
Aviation
by the most safe means you can’t call a car a movement. In addition, the opinion that it is impossible to survive in a plane crash is also erroneous. If we refer to the resource table for registering incidents, we can see that in most cases there were no casualties. 500 accidents in the United States over 20 years accounted for 5% of deaths.
If we take only large crashes from the sum, then the mortality rate will be about 50%.
In 2007, Popular Mechanics magazine named the safest seats on an airplane. The journalists analyzed the data of the US National Security Council for 30 years. They drew attention to the dependence of the number of victims on the place.
The number of aircraft survivors as a result of accidents, depending on the landing site Nearly 70% of the survivors remain in the section beyond the edge of the aircraft's wing. Survive 56% of those sitting above the wing. The main impact in a collision with the ground falls on the nose of the liner, so the tail is relatively safe.
There are also statistics on the safest aircraft. Here are the top five:
- Airbus A340 - 341 aircraft of this type have been produced in 24 years. During 13.5 million flight hours, 5 accidents were recorded and no one was injured;
- Airbus A330 - 577 copies. 1 accident per 14 million flight hours. Total lost 8 pieces, 346 deaths;
- Boeing 747 - 1 accident in 17.5 million departures. 941 ships are in operation, 51 are lost as a result of accidents, 3732 people died.
- Boeing 737 NG - since 1997 3 tragedies occurred (1/17 million hours).
Interesting fact: Boeing 747 is officially certified to fly without 1 engine (out of 4). Those. in case of failure, he can safely continue the flight to the destination, without emergency landings.
The Boeing 777 is considered the safest aircraft in the world. The total flight time of 748 copies since 1995 has amounted to more than 20 million hours. 3 people died in two incidents. In the entire history, one ship has been lost. It is important to understand that the rating is compiled without taking into account hostilities and terrorist attacks..
Motor transport
Oddly enough, the car familiar to us is one of the most dangerous means of transportation, second only to motorcycles. Let's think about your safety in the car. The testauto.ru resource publishes the data of the largest companies conducting crash tests. Based on this rating, we will determine the safest cars.
In the column overall score, “excellent” is given to Volkswagen Passat, Volvo XC-90, Toyota RAV-4, Toyota Prius, Mercedess E-class and C-class, Lexus GS, Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Such popular brands as BMV 3 series, Dodge Caliber, Honda Accord VI, Honda Civic Hathback V, Honda CR-V, Volvo S-70 and S-80 and a number of other cars passed the “good” test.
The main criteria for scoring are frontal and side impacts, coups, child safety. You can familiarize yourself with other assessments in detail on the indicated site, but we have listed all the excellent students. The source calls the Volvo XC90 the safest car in the world with reference to EuroNCAP specialists. The device scored the maximum number of stars.
Interestingly, in the evaluation system of some crash tests there is an indicator "pedestrians". Unfortunately, if you look at the table, it becomes clear that these road users are practically not protected by anything. Be careful on the roads!
Safe seats in the cabin
Automobile
Do you know what is the safest place in a car? Most people are convinced it's behind the driver's seat. If the vehicle is hit in the side, then the chances of salvation will be equal for the driver and the passenger sitting behind.
The center of the vehicle is least susceptible to damage in an accident. That's why the middle between the two rear seats is considered the most safe place in car.
Public transport
Least dangerous to borrow central places public transport. The logic is similar: the highest probability of collision with cars moving on the left. Accordingly, passengers sitting by the window will be under attack.
It is also not recommended to sit on the back four rows. On the first seats, it is better to sit behind the driver's seat, especially if the seats are located with their backs in the direction of travel. The middle of the cabin remains the safest place on the bus.
Other payment options
This article considers one option for calculating safety, in terms of passenger-kilometers. The question can be answered in terms of the number of deaths per billion hours. Then, the buses will come out in first place, and the planes will go down to third. If we take a billion trips as a basis, trains will become the leader, air travel will move to seventh place.
All methods have advantages and disadvantages. Extras use different algorithms. It is enough for us to know that it is safer to travel by land for short distances, and by air for long distances. Well, the safest transport is a spaceship. He is unbeatable in any case. In the entire history of space exploration, 18 people have died.
We introduced you to the transport safety calculation systems, introduced you to the course of sociological surveys. Now, the word is yours. What is your preferred means of transportation? We are waiting for your comments!
Thanks to modern transport, we can move freely over long distances. But what is the safest transport? Ironically, the safest mode of transport is the plane. After the plane, the safety of the passenger can be ensured by the train, and only then by the car. That's what the statistics say. More detailed information you can find out more about it below.
Airplanes first.
Air transport is the safest!
If you choose transport for a trip or travel, then statistics will definitely advise you on air travel. Contrary to the opinion of the majority, that the plane is the most unreliable and dangerous mode of transport - this is not so! And it's all to blame for the wide resonance of the ongoing air crashes in the world. The facts themselves say exactly the opposite.
Thousands of flights are made every hour in the world. According to statistics, there is only 1 death per 1 million air passengers.
Every plane crash is a piece of news marked as "lightning", which is discussed and closely followed by journalists. Always during a major air crash, television shows shocking footage from the scene of the tragedy and lists of victims, and mourning is also declared.
But if you think about it, there are 2-3 major plane crashes, and somewhere around a dozen small ones, while you can estimate the approximate number of victims, this is somewhere around 1-2 thousand people a year. Now think about how many car accidents happen every day, in which people die? What about a month or a year? Only in a month about 2 thousand people die as a result of car accidents.
Despite the large number of victims in a plane crash, and after that there is very little chance of surviving, the number of victims is ten times less than in tragedies with other modes of transport.
Recently, the number of air crashes has decreased by 36%. This is due to the fact that aircraft are constantly improving in everything, including safety. Before departure, the aircraft undergoes a thorough inspection and check, and the flight itself is controlled by both the crew of the aircraft and air traffic controllers on the ground.
Trains after planes
The second safest mode of transport is the train. Statistics say that there are 18 deaths per 1 million passengers.
It is the railway message that most people consider the safest form of transportation, but the dry numbers say otherwise. Most likely, this happens because there are rails under the train and they have their own separate route, when there is only air under the plane. Despite the fact that railway accidents also have a resonance, however, it is not as significant as with air accidents.
Many might argue that rail crashes are no more common than plane crashes, in which fewer people die. However, the number of flights, passengers on them and the distance traveled are many times greater than those of other modes of transport.
Auto - unsafe
Cars are one of the most unsafe modes of transport. Judging by the numbers, there are 62 deaths per 1 million passengers.
- very unsafe. Unlike the previous two modes of transport, here the chances of getting into an accident are increased due to other road users who can cause an accident.
And now the numbers
Now let's look at the mortality statistics. If above we took into account the number of deaths per total number of passengers, now let's look at the data on the mileage covered:
- Air communication - 0.05 people;
- Railway communication - 0.9 people;
- Vehicles - 3.1 people.
Airplanes are dangerous to fly, we think. Trains are even more dangerous according to statistics. To what extent do our ideas about safety correspond to disaster statistics?
The period of vacations and holidays puts us before the inevitable choice of the type of transport on which we will go towards the alluring heat of Goa, the snowy landscapes of the Austrian Alps or on a labor landing to our mother in Tver.
The choice is not easy, and even more so when it comes to transport, because many interests collide, which include price, speed, convenience and safety.
And security among them, as the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center found out, is the most important criterion. To what extent our ideas about safety correspond to the statistics of catastrophes.
Russians believe in train safety
In 2013, the Russians traditionally recognized the train as the safest mode of transport according to VTsIOM. Despite the fact that his credibility has fallen by more than 10% over the past three years and this moment is 46%. coupled with the electric train, for which another 41% of respondents voted, Russian Railways clearly enjoys confidence.
Aircraft also traditionally do not inspire confidence among our population. Only 16% of Russians believe in security air transportation, which is almost half that of last year. You can not take a car into account at all, it was not even included in the rating of safe modes of transport, since it is considered initially traumatic.
However, in the confrontation between modes of transport, not everything is so simple. For many years, statistics have been telling us that we are afraid to fly in vain, since the plane is the safest mode of transport. So why don't we trust the smart science of statistics. It turns out that there are reasons for this.
NOT a safe plane
In fact, the statistics data largely depend on the calculation method. The plane is indeed the safest mode of transport, but only at the rate of tragedies per kilometer. It is the data of this method that are published on almost all transport sites and airline sites.
The trick is that, according to all the same statistics, the majority of air crashes occur at the time of takeoff and landing; aircraft die extremely rarely during the journey. Therefore, this method is so loved by air carriers.
By the way, in terms of tragedies per kilometer, the most dangerous way to travel is a motorcycle and attention! walking. Pedestrians are killed not much less than motorcyclists.
But there are other calculation methods, and here the plane does not look so pretty. The UK Department for Transport for Local Government and Regions (DTLR) has published data obtained from the calculation of passenger deaths for the number of trips and speed of movement.
And it turned out that the train still safer than an airplane and takes an honorable first place in the ranking of the fewest dead passengers. Interestingly, in both cases, the most dangerous mode of transport remains a motorcycle.
Far from the best performance of the aircraft and the total number of deaths. In the study design center aircraft manager (Ph.D. Plotnikov I.I. “Method of assessing the danger of modes of transport”) for 10 years, the number of victims of air crashes is second only to car accidents, taking an honorable 2nd place. And in terms of the number of deaths per 1 million passengers carried, it is completely in the lead.
Thus, of the five research methods in four, the train is still the safest mode of transport. So the intuitive assumptions of our compatriots in fact do not contradict the statistics at all, no matter what the airlines claim.
The safest planes
But we still have to fly, because there are places where trains do not go, and the speed of movement still plays an important role.
Contrary to the pessimistic expectations of Russians and the gloomy posts of the Internet, our country is not the leader in the number of air crashes either this year or in previous years.
According to the portal statista.com, the United States has been leading the tragic list for many years, and I must say, by a wide margin. Between 1945 and October 2013, there were 763 air accidents in the United States. In Russia, only 304.
According to the Air Accident Data Analysis Center (JACDEC), Finnish FINNAIR became the safest airline in the world in 2013. In general, the list of the best looks like this:
1.Finnair (Finland)
2. Air New Zealand (New Zealand)
3. Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong)
4. Emirates (UAE)
5. Etihad Airways (UAE)
6. Eva Air (Taiwan)
7. TAP (Portugal)
8. Hainan Airlines (China)
9. Virgin Australia (Australia)
10 British Airways UK
11. Lufthansa (Germany)
12. All Nippon Airways (Japan)
The list also includes two Russian airlines: Transaero in 16th place and Aeroflot in 39th place. We have more to strive for.
Why planes crash
In order to somehow reassure themselves before an air trip, many are interested in the depreciation of the fleet of a particular carrier. A trip on a young plane somehow calms in itself. However, it is absolutely not supported by statistics.
According to the blog "Flying Together", the picture of the depreciation of the Russian fleet for the period of October 2013 looks like this:
1. Aeroflot - 5.2 years
2. Taimyr (NordStar) - 9.2 years
3. Siberia - S7 (including the Globe) - 9.7 years
4. Russia - 10.3 years
5. Red Wings - 10.7 years
6. Muscovy - 11.1 years
7. Yakutia - 11.3 years
8. Ak Bars Aero - 11.3 years
9. Vladivostok Air - 11.9 years
10. Ural Airlines- 12.1 years
11. Donavia - 12.5 years
12. Tatarstan - 12.7 years (data including the plane crash in Kazan)
13. Severstal - 13.4 years
14. Orenburg Airlines - 13.8 years
15. Yamal - 13.8 years
16. North wind(Nord Wind) - 14.1 years
17. Kolavia (TUI) - 14.2 years
18. RusLine - 14.3 years
19. iFly - 14.9 years old
20. Transaero - 15.9 years
21. Flight - 16.6 years
22. Icarus - 17.1 years
23. Aurora - 17.7 years
24. UTair (including UTair-Express) - 19.7 years
25. Gazpromavia - 20.8 years
26. VIM-avia - 21.4 years
27. Nordavia - 21.9 years
28. Tulpar - 24.9 years
29. Grozny Avia - 25.9 years
30. Saratov Airlines- 26.3 years
31. Alrosa - 28.3 years
32. Izhavia - 29.4 years old
33. Angara - 29.4 years
34. Iraero - 31.3 years
35. Tomskavia - 37.8 years
36. Polar Airlines - 39.2 years
Forbes also confirms these data, marking Aeroflot as the company with the youngest fleet in Russia - less than 5 years old. I must say that Finnair, the leader in safe air transportation, has an average age of aircraft of about 9 years.
The Russian company Sibir (S7) has the same age of aircraft, but this company is known for its sad list of plane crashes.
This already suggests that planes rarely fall from old age. The statistics have no doubt about it. You can, of course, calm yourself down and get on a “younger” plane, but the chance that it will not crash is no greater than that of an “older” plane.
And all because planes crash most often due to pilot errors, that is, all because of the notorious human factor (where can you get away from it).
According to the agency AVIASAFETY.ru
- 68% of air crashes occur due to the fault of the human factor, of which 47% are pilot errors, 13% are the negligence of ground services and 8% are terrorist attacks.
- 18% - equipment failure. Moreover, both old and new equipment can fail.
- 14% - the reasons are not established.
Aerophobia
What to do when you still need to fly, but it's very scary? Psychologists give a lot of advice on this issue. Let's look at the most reasonable of them:
- If behind the fear of flying is a fear of heights, a fear of closed spaces, a tendency to panic attacks, the issue must be resolved not with airplanes, but with these disorders.
- But most often behind aerophobia hides a person's desire for complete control over the situation and the craving for a sense of absolute security. Needless to say, both are unattainable. Therefore, we must take it for granted that not everything in life depends on us, including the issue of life and death.
- As a given, we must also accept the fact that, with all our desire, we will not be able to influence whether the plane will fall or not. Therefore, it is not necessary to study aerobatics instructions or scrupulously study the details of all plane crashes. This will by no means relieve nervousness, but, on the contrary, will aggravate it.
- The cure for fear in the form of alcohol is also not the best option. The problem will not be solved, but new ones will easily be created.
The main thing to understand is that you need to deal with yourself, and not with the plane. From whether you tremble with fear or not, the possibility of a plane crash will not change, but you will spoil your nerves for sure.
The world's worst plane crash happened in 1977. Two Boeing 747s collided at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife. 574 people died. Due to errors by ground services and poor visibility, the two airliners ended up on the same runway and moved towards each other until a tragic collision occurred.
- Another large-scale disaster also belongs to the Boeing 747. In August 1985, the airliner lost control and crashed into a mountain near Tokyo. 520 people died. The cause of the death of the aircraft was the destruction of the tail unit.
- In Russia, An-2 aircraft most often fall. But this is not due to the fact that the plane is bad, but to the fact that it is the most common in Russia.
— 2009 was the safest year for Russian airlines. Not a single person died on the regular planes.
— 2012 was the safest year for aviation in the world. In Russia, this year, unfortunately, was overshadowed by 4 air crashes.
- After the collapse of the USSR, Aeroflot had two plane crashes. In 1994 he suffered Airbus crash A310.
The pilot put his 15-year-old son at the helm. The teenager managed to turn off the autopilot, the plane went into a tailspin and crashed. 75 people died.
In 2008, a Boeing 737 crashed near Perm due to pilot errors, in whose blood alcohol was found. 87 people died.
- The most mysterious plane crash is the death of the liner with the poetic name "Speed Romance of the Sky" in November 1957 of Pan Am.
Just starting trip around the world, the plane crashed into Pacific Ocean. 44 people died. The reasons are still unknown. The plane did not send distress calls, and the toxicological examination of the bodies showed a high content of carbon monoxide.
Kenneth Roberts, an American, was the first survivor of a plane crash. A plane carrying American soldiers crashed on June 14, 1943 in Australia. Roberts survived, but forever forgot everything about the accident itself and lost the ability to speak.
Photo: depositphotos.com
Vehicles allow us to move around the world quickly and comfortably, but at what cost? Millions of people die every year in transport.
10. Moped and motorcycle
Mopeds and motorcycles rightfully occupy the tenth position in our ranking of the safest modes of transport. For many years in a row, such transport has been considered the most dangerous. Of the total traffic, motorcycles make up only 1%, while on the roads 20% of deaths occur precisely on this type of transport.
In order to survive, you should remember that you can not develop a dashing speed of more than 70 km / h. Desperate bravado is not only inappropriate, it can also cost the life of the driver. And if he took a passenger with him .. According to statistics, 125 deaths occur for every 1.5 billion km .. The death rate of drivers of ordinary cars is 28 times less than the death rate of motorcycle drivers. These are the modern facts.
From year to year, the bicycle is considered one of the most dangerous types of transport, according to official statistics. This year is no exception, unfortunately. The most common accidents involving bicycles occur when they collide with cars.
The number of such accidents on the roads is constantly growing. Therefore, cyclists should be as careful as possible. Since teenagers are most often killed in such accidents, all parents should take this moment into account. At 1.5 billion km. According to statistics, 35 deaths are accounted for.
8. Subway
This type of transport in case of accidents ruins the lives of many people at once. And emergencies in the subway are especially dangerous for citizens. If we talk about Russia, most often the victims are passengers of the Moscow metro.
7. Sea transport
Ferries are not as safe as water transport enthusiasts would like. According to the statistics of the current year, by 1.5 billion km. accounts for 20 deaths. In particular, it should be noted that not every death occurs as a result of a crash.
Passengers have been known to fall overboard. Water transport is also unsafe!
6. Spaceship
Only 18 spacecraft that have been sent into boundless space since the very first flight in 1961 have failed to return. And this is despite the impressive amount of transport of this type sent into space.
There were 530 ships in total. It should be borne in mind that people did not die in space itself. Tragedies happened during takeoff or at the time of landing. According to statistics, 1.5 billion km. accounts for 7 human deaths.
5. Minibus
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for people to die while traveling on this type of transport, often due to the low qualification of drivers.
4. Car
Previously, cars were considered an incredibly dangerous type of transport. So, how, in statistics, one of the safest types of transport turned out to be a car? Everything is very simple.
Cars have been significantly improved in recent years. Thus, the number of accidents has been significantly reduced. New statistics show that 1.5 billion km. There are four deaths in the share of cars. However, this does not mean that you can safely forget about safety measures or become fans of crazy driving.
3. Bus
For 1 billion km. accounts for 0.5 deaths according to official statistics. This applies to ordinary buses. Therefore, in the ranking of the safest modes of transport, it was buses that took the honorable 3rd place.
In Europe, this type of public transport is one of the safest. In Egypt, things are worse, as in the Russian Federation. But still, in the third position of the ranking, buses are deservedly.
However, do not forget about the terrible incidents associated with this type of transport. It is worth at least remembering how a bus was rammed by a truck in the capital. And this is not an isolated case!
2. Plane
But, according to statistics, the plane cannot be attributed to the safest modes of transport. Nevertheless, 0.5 deaths occur per 1.5 billion km, if we also take into account small aircraft with helicopters. Commercial ships will always trump ordinary light aircraft in danger.
However, we should not forget that the worst thing, in the case of air crashes, is the fact that almost none of the huge number of passengers manage to escape. And even the crew of an aircraft in air crashes is often no more lucky. It is known that such incidents can never be an accident.
When a plane crash occurs, a combination of certain factors is to blame. However, airplanes are always considered one of the safest types of transport. And statistics every year confirm this. But the most surprising thing is that often people are much more afraid of flying on airplanes than riding motorcycles.
Trains, according to statistics, are considered the safest transport in the world and were in the first place of our list. This is especially true for American and European trains, with only 0.2 deaths per 1.5 billion km. for the trains.
If we take only Russian Federation, in railway transport, the mortality rate is 0.7 per 1.5 billion km, which is also not very high.
calculate, what mode of transport is the safest, not so easy. To build a beautiful and visual graph, at least two indicators are required - the number of dead or injured, as well as the number of people who use this type of transport. For air, rail and water transport, finding this data is not difficult, because thanks to tickets, each person is taken into account. But there are problems with road transport. Tracking the movement of the average Russian from work, to work and to the store is not possible - after all, no one passes registration to leave on the threshold of their home.
Our transport safety rating according to statistics for 2018 was compiled using various sources - from the data of the National Union of Insurers, which keep statistics on registered insured events from 2012 to the present, to data on traffic accidents on the Rosstat website.
> 200 deaths per 1.6 billion km
Although the number of motorcycle accidents has decreased by more than 70% since 2005, the motorcycle still remains one of the most dangerous modes of transport. According to statistics, it turns out that every 1.6 billion kilometers of the way are paid for by the lives of more than two hundred drivers and their passengers.
A motorcycle, like another two-wheeled vehicle - a bicycle - is characterized by increased vulnerability, so accidents involving motorcyclists are highly likely to end sadly. The reason is non-compliance with the rules of the road, and, surprisingly, the fundamental refusal of some drivers to use a helmet.
5.75 people per 1.6 billion km
In second place in the number of road accidents are private cars. In total, at least 5.75 people die in 1.6 billion kilometers of the way.
The reasons are both the unwillingness of drivers to comply with the rules of the road, and the condition of the roadway, the increased wear and tear of the vehicle fleet due to the crisis and the deterioration in the purchasing power of the population. And also (due to the increase in the average age of life) and the aging of drivers. All these factors together ensure that automobile transport Russia will not be safe for a long time.
9.4 deaths per 1 million passengers
Among air transport, the greatest danger to human life is not international, but intercity. Especially if a person in a helicopter is forced to go to those parts where even the notorious Makar prefers not to drive his calves. Perhaps this is the reason for such a high number of casualties among helicopter passengers. For every 1 million people, at least 9.4 are injured. You will have to fall from a great height, and, with a high degree of probability, the injuries will be incompatible with life.
5 dead per 1.5 billion km
Fixed-route taxis are by no means the safest form of transport in Russia. According to statistics, every 1.5 billion kilometers traveled by a minibus are paid for with five human lives. Among the reasons can be named both the work of drivers for wear and tear, and the design miscalculations of minibuses, the condition of the roads, the unwillingness to follow the rules of the road and driving while drunk.
2.84 injured per 1 million transported
In 2018, there were several major accidents involving intercity buses, including a tragic accident in the Voronezh region, when two buses collided, five people died and 17 were injured. international buses not distinguished by safety - for every million passengers transported in accidents, at least 2.84 are injured or killed. In total for 2018 trips to intercity buses brought death to more than 600 passengers, and injured more than 13 thousand people.
2.3 accidents per 1 million passengers
This category includes both international ships and domestic river carriers. In total, in 2018, 62 incidents occurred during sea and river travel, which ended tragically for five people. In general, according to NSS statistics, for every million passengers carried, there are 2.3 accidents.
Passengers on sea and river boats not only the water element threatens, but also the fire element. One of common causes traffic accidents - a sudden outbreak of fire on board a ship, usually caused by a malfunction of the electrical wiring. This is not surprising, given that the Russian domestic fleet is in a deplorable state, and almost a third of the ships have celebrated 40 years of operation.
Probability of dying: 1:11,000,000
The safest transport in the world, however, in Russia it is not possible to obtain accurate statistics on the number of accidents per number of passengers. The data of the National Association of Insurers, on which we relied when assessing the risk of other modes of transport, are not available for them. The reason is the peculiarities of the insurance system in Russia; most air transport companies carry their passengers not only within the country, but also abroad. Therefore, they use international insurance policies.
That's why the plane is the safest mode of transport: according to statistics, the odds of dying in an accident on board an aircraft are 1 in 11 million. For comparison: the chances of being struck by lightning while walking in a thunderstorm are 16 times higher!
0.17 accidents per 1 million passengers
This category includes both intercity and international trains, as well as ordinary commuter trains. In general, for 2018, the statistics for Russian Railways look excellent - for almost the entire year, from January to November, only seven accidents were registered. Unfortunately, there were no deaths - one person died. In general, there are no more than 0.17 accidents per 1 million passengers.
More and more people prefer to use one of the safest modes of transport, and this cannot be explained by price alone. After all, for some destinations, the cost of plane and train tickets is almost equal. According to the Russian Railways website, for 2018 in trains long distance transported almost 8% more passengers than last year. And the growth in the number of passengers on electric trains amounted to almost 3%.
0.09 cases per million transported
Trolleybus is in second place in terms of safety among modes of transport in Russia. According to NSS statistics, there are only 0.09 accidents for every million passengers carried. Most of them are banal “stumbled and fell”.
The reasons for the low injury rate of a trolleybus are very simple - its volume and weight, as well as its low speed. In the event of a collision with, for example, car much worse for a car. And the passengers of the trolleybus will get off with light bruises.
0.04 affected out of 1,000,000 people
The safest transport according to statistics for 2018 in terms of the ratio of the number of accidents to the number of passengers. In total, out of one million arrivals from point A to point B, no more than 0.04 people are injured. In addition to safety, the tram has many advantages:
- it moves more smoothly than a car and even a trolleybus;
- less noisy;
- completely autonomous from traffic jams (unless, of course, motorists are trying to drive along the tracks);
- of all urban transport causes the least harm to the environment.
Unfortunately, trams are gradually disappearing from small towns in Russia. The reason is the limited local budget, which is simply unable to support a separate line. In total, over the past twenty years, the number of trams has decreased by more than 35%. Does this mean that the safest mode of transport will gradually disappear from the urban landscape?
