Calculate what type of transport is the safest, not so simple. 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, this data is not difficult to find, because thanks to tickets, every person is taken into account. But there are problems with automobile transport. It is not possible to track the movements of the average Russian from work, to work and to the store - no one registers at the doorstep of their home.

Our transport safety rating according to statistics for 2018 was compiled using various sources - from data from the National Union of Insurers, which keeps statistics of registered insurance cases from 2012 to the present, to data on transport accidents on the Rosstat website.

> 200 deaths per 1.6 billion km

Although the number of accidents involving motorcyclists has decreased by more than 70% since 2005, the motorcycle remains one of the most dangerous forms of transport. According to statistics, it turns out that every 1.6 billion km of travel is paid for with 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 traffic, and, surprisingly, the fundamental refusal of some drivers to use a helmet.

5.75 people per 1.6 billion km

Personal cars are in second place in terms of the number of road accidents. In just 1.6 billion km of travel, at least 5.75 people die.

The reasons include the reluctance of drivers to comply with traffic rules, the condition of the road surface, the increased wear and tear of the vehicle fleet due to the crisis and the deterioration of 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 serve as a guarantee that road transport in 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 shipping, and long-distance. Especially if a person in a helicopter is forced to go to those lands where even the notorious Makar prefers not to send his calves. Perhaps this is what explains 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 deaths per 1.5 billion km

Minibus taxis cannot be called the safest type of transport in Russia. According to statistics, every 1.5 billion km of route traveled by a minibus is paid for by five human lives. Among the reasons can be cited both the work of drivers for wear and tear, as well as design flaws of minibuses, the condition of the roads, unwillingness to comply with traffic rules and drunk driving.

2.84 victims per 1 million transported

There were several major incidents involving intercity buses in 2018, including a tragic incident in Voronezh region, when two buses collided, five people died and 17 were injured. In general, according to statistics, intercity and international buses do not differ in safety - for every million passengers transported, at least 2.84 are injured or killed in accidents. 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 transported, 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 reasons transport accidents - a sudden fire on board a ship, usually caused by a faulty electrical wiring. This is not surprising, given that Russia's domestic fleet is in a deplorable state, and almost a third of the ships have celebrated 40 years of service.

Chance 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. Data from the National Society of Insurers, which we relied on when assessing the danger 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 transport their passengers not only within the country, but also abroad. Therefore, they use international insurance policies.

That's why the plane is the most dangerous look transport: according to statistics, The chances of dying in an accident on board an airplane 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 incidents were recorded. Unfortunately, there were some deaths - one person died. In general, there are no more than 0.17 accidents per 1 million passengers.

Everyone prefers to use one of the safest modes of transport. more people, and cost alone cannot explain this. Indeed, for some destinations the cost of plane and train tickets is almost equal. According to the Russian Railways website, for 2018 on trains long distance Almost 8% more passengers were transported than last year. And the increase in the number of passengers on electric trains amounted to almost 3%.

0.09 cases per million transported

The trolleybus is in second place in terms of safety among modes of transport in Russia. According to NSS statistics, for every million passengers transported there are only 0.09 accidents. Most of them are banal “stumbled and fell.”

The reasons for the low trauma rate of a trolleybus are very simple - its volume and weight, as well as its low speed. In a collision, for example, with a passenger car, the car will suffer much worse. And the trolleybus passengers will get away with minor bruises.

0.04 victims 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 people arriving 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 or even a trolleybus;
• less noisy;
• completely autonomous from traffic jams (unless, of course, motorists try to drive along the tracks);
• Of all urban transport, it 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 simply cannot support a separate line. In just the past twenty years, the number of trams has decreased by more than 35%. Does this mean that the safest form of transport will gradually disappear from the urban landscape?

16.11.2015 at 14:01 · Johnny · 58 090

The safest mode of transport according to statistics in the world for 2018-2019

Vehicles allow us to quickly and comfortably move around the world, but at what cost? Millions of people die in transport every year. We compiled a rating to identify the safest mode of transport, transport statistics for 2018-2019 helped with this. Some ranking positions may surprise you, but you can’t argue with the statistics.

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 and 2018 is no exception. Of the total traffic, motorcycles make up only 1%, while 20% of deaths on the roads occur due to this type of transport.

In order to survive, you should remember that you cannot reach a reckless speed of more than 70 km/h. Desperate bravado is not only inappropriate, it can also cost the driver his life. What if he took a passenger with him...

According to statistics, 125 deaths occur for every 1.5 billion km. motorcycle rental The mortality rate of drivers of conventional cars is 28 times less than the mortality rate of motorcycle drivers. These are the modern facts.

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In ninth place in the list of the safest modes of transport for 2018-2019, the “younger brother” of the moped, the bicycle, is considered. From year to year, a bicycle is considered one of the most dangerous types of transport, according to official statistics. This year was no exception, unfortunately.

Most often, 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 the most likely to die in such accidents, all parents should consider this moment. At 1.5 billion km. According to statistics, there are 35 deaths.

8. Subway

The metro was in eighth position in the ranking of the safest mode of transport according to statistics for 2018-2019. In case of accidents, this type of transport destroys the lives of many people at once. And emergencies in the metro are especially dangerous for citizens. If we talk about Russia, most often the victims are passengers of the Moscow metro.

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Ferries are not as safe as water transport enthusiasts would like. According to current year statistics, 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. There have been cases of passengers falling overboard. Water transport also unsafe!

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The spaceship ranks 6th in our ranking of the safest modes of transport for 2018-2019. Only 18 of the spacecraft that have been sent into limitless space since the very first flight in 1961 have failed to return. And this is despite an impressive number of vehicles of this type sent into space. There were 530 ships in total. It is worth considering that people did not die in space itself. Tragedies happened during takeoff or during landing. According to statistics, by 1.5 billion km. accounts for 7 human deaths.

5. Minibus

4. Car

Cars used to be considered an incredibly dangerous type of transport. So, how did a car turn out to be one of the safest types of transport in 2018-2019 statistics? Everything is very simple. The machine design was significantly modified in last years. Thus, the number of accidents has decreased significantly.

New statistics show that 1.5 billion km. There are four deaths per car. 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 for 2018-2019, buses took an honorable 3rd place.

In European spaces, this type public transport is among the safest. Things are worse in Egypt, as in Russian Federation. But still, buses are deservedly in third position in the ranking. However, we should not forget about the terrible incidents associated with this type of transport.

It’s worth at least remembering how a bus in the capital was rammed by a truck. And this is not an isolated case!

2. Airplane

In second place are airplanes. Although, in previous years, this type of transport occupied the top line of such ratings. But, according to 2019 statistics, the plane cannot be considered one of the safest modes of transport.

However, 0.5 deaths occur per 1.5 billion km, if we also take into account small aircraft with helicopters. Commercial ships will always be more dangerous than conventional light aircraft. However, we should not forget that the worst thing in the case of plane crashes is the fact that almost no one huge number passengers fail to escape. And even the crew of an aircraft in plane crashes is often no luckier.

It is known that such incidents can never be an accident. When a plane crash occurs, a combination of certain factors are to blame. However, airplanes are always considered one of the safest types of transport. And statistics confirm this every year. But the most surprising thing is that people are often much more afraid of flying on airplanes than riding motorcycles.

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Trains, according to statistics from 2018-2019, are considered the most safe transport in the world and ended up in first place on our list. This is especially true for American and European trains; only 0.2 deaths occur per 1.5 billion km. to the share of trains. If we take only the Russian Federation, the mortality rate in railway transport is 0.7 per 1.5 billion km, which is also not very much.

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Business Insider set out to prove this thesis. Its journalists, using scientific data and statistics, claim that the chances of dying while in a car or while walking on the street are many times higher.

Last year, MIT professors found that the global average risk of death for a commercial airline passenger is one in 45 million flights. Statistics say that on average, a traveler can spend 123 thousand years on an airplane without crashing.

The publication provides a list of 10 facts that should convincingly prove that an airplane is the safest mode of transport available today.

1. Bicycle. For cyclists, the odds of being involved in an accident and dying are one in 4,982 trips. These figures are provided by the US National Safety Council.

2. Motorcycle. In the United States, there is one accident involving motorcyclists for every 1,907 trips they take.

3. The odds of being seriously injured while walking on the streets are one in 1,749.

4. If you are a passenger in a car right now (in the US), your chances of getting into an accident are approximately one in 415.

5. Government experts in the US say that private jet flyers are much more likely to get into trouble than those who fly commercial airlines. In the first case, the risk of getting into an accident is one in 7229.

6. Analysts from the PolitiFact organization studied the statistics of accidents involving buses and came to the conclusion that this is the most dangerous land mode of transport. There is nothing to compare with flight safety, experts say.

7. Statistics say that for every 100 million airline miles a typical passenger flies, there are only 0.003 fatalities. For comparison: in the case of commercial buses, this figure is 0.05, that is, approximately 17 times higher.

To understand whether flying on airplanes is really dangerous, you should look at official statistics. In 2013, 31 plane crashes were officially registered. It is important to realize that these tragic events happened not only with Russian planes, but throughout the world as a whole, and these flights also included cargo transportation, and not just passenger ones.

It is clear that the number of accidents on highways is much higher. Thus, according to official statistics, in the first half of the year alone, 62,984 registered road accidents occurred on the territory of the Russian Federation, that is, approximately 346 accidents per day.

As for rail transport, the statistics here are less deplorable, but the indicators are far from being comparable to aviation ones. Thus, on the Gorky Railway alone in 2013, there were 17 accidents in which 12 people died. Unfortunately, there are no general statistics on railway accidents for the world as a whole, but in some countries, for example, in India, the situation is much worse than in Russia, so it becomes clear that the number of accidents in absolute terms in air transport is much lower than the same track performance or railways.

When analyzing disasters, it is, of course, worth taking into account the widespread use of cars. But the number of flights per day is quite comparable to the number of trains leaving the stations every day.

The severity of the consequences of a disaster on different modes of transport

As a rule, there are no survivors. However, the same dry statistics indicate that this statement is not entirely true. In 2013, out of 827 people on plane crashes, 311 died. In road accidents over six months in Russia, 7,801 people died and another 80,330 were injured.

As for railway transport, there is a high mortality rate in road accidents at crossings, but in most incidents while the train is moving, people receive moderate injuries and bruises.

About half of air crashes occur while the aircraft is landing on the ground. Interestingly, about the same proportion of accidents are caused by fatal pilot error.

What type of transport is the least dangerous?

Insurance companies help you understand which type of transport is the least safe, because they constantly study the statistics of disasters on land, in the air and at sea. Interestingly, the lowest rates for insuring cargo transported by sea and by air transport, that is, the probability of an unfavorable outcome here is considered by insurers as lower.

As for passengers, they are insured at a lower percentage for rail transport and when flying by plane. And trips to ground transport(personal and public) are considered the most risky of all possible types of travel.

Many people have probably heard that traveling by air is much safer than traveling by land or sea. And this is true, so you shouldn’t be afraid of flying. However, it is important to remember the following: There is no completely safe mode of transport! Each category has its own data on emergency situations and, alas, passenger mortality. However, statistics for many years have stated that hundreds of times fewer people die in plane crashes than, for example, as a result of road accidents. Even cyclists (again, according to statistics) get into accidents more often than airline passengers. Interestingly, approximately 80% of people are afraid to fly, 5% completely refuse flights because of their fear, preferring “safer” ground and aquatic species transport. Let's figure out what is safer: a plane or a train?

According to data collected over the past 5 years, the safest mode of transport is the airplane. Trains and boats are a little behind.

Let's think about why the plane is the safest mode of transport. There are an unimaginable number of aircraft in the world. In 2013, it was found that every 3 seconds somewhere Globe one airliner lands.

Let's imagine that with this number of planes, the chance of getting into a plane crash was only 0.01%, then there would be at least 13 crashes every day. The real probability of a passenger becoming a victim of a plane crash is 1 to 8,000,000. Even if you fly every day, it would take 21,000 years to die in a plane crash. By comparison, the chance of being seriously injured while simply walking is significantly higher: 1 in 1,749.

Rail transport is not far behind air transport in terms of safety. Most people die as a result of road accidents.

Keep silent about even a small crash passenger plane is impossible, therefore, with the help of radio, television and the Internet, the world learns about the real number of incidents. Another thing is that any plane crash is an extremely large-scale incident, so the news about the crashes is shocking in the number of victims, as well as in the footage of eyewitnesses and film crews.

A train derailment is no less a major event than a plane crash. It is noteworthy that railway transport ranks second in safety, since in the event of an accident the passenger at least partially has the opportunity to take part in his own rescue. However, for example, since the beginning of 2016, 6 large-scale accidents have already been recorded in the world, and in 2015 - at least 24. There is no clear answer to the question: “Why is the plane safer than a train? very difficult, at least due to the fact that different countries, and statistics can vary greatly over different periods. However, one thing is 100% certain: most people in the world crash in cars.

Plane crash survivability

Many people believe that if a person ends up on board a plane that crashes, his chances of survival are close to zero. However, the statistics are more optimistic. In the USA, interesting calculations were made, which took into account the statistics of 568 disasters that occurred between 1983 and 2001. The dead were only 5% of the total number of passengers on board. The chances of survival are significantly increased (by as much as 50%) if the plane makes an emergency splashdown. Therefore, routes passing through water areas are theoretically the safest.