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Lower activity – higher turnover
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2015-06-04T10:00:00.000Z
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The statistics show transport activity in the taxi industry. In the 1st quarter of 2015 the taxi industry had a turnover of NOK 2.2 billion and carried out 8.0 million trips.

Taxi transport, Q1 2015

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In the first quarter of 2012, Statistics Norway adopted a new method for predicting population totals for taxis. This can result in minor breaks in the series.

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Lower activity – higher turnover

The number of kilometres driven with a passenger went down 0.5 per cent in the 1st quarter of 2015 compared to the same quarter in the previous year. The industry’s turnover was NOK 2.2 billion; an increase of 2.8 per cent compared to the 1st quarter of 2014.

Key figures for taxisPublished 4 June 2015
1st quarter 20152014Change in per cent
1st quarter 2014 - 1st quarter 20152013 - 2014
Trips (1 000)7 99632 3250.2-4.2
Turnover (NOK million)2 1798 8072.80.0
Hours offered (1 000)7 77632 788-1.4-0.3
Hours in operation (1 000)2 52410 376-1.0-3.1
Total length driven (1 000 km)137 951576 376-0.7-2.1
Lenght driven with passengers (1 000 km)76 108309 013-0.5-3.5
Turnover per trip (NOK/trip)272.5272.52.64.4
Kilometer driven with passenger per trip9.59.6-1.0-1.1
Capacity utilization per km driven (per cent)55.253.60.2-1.5
Capacity utilization per hours offered (per cent)32.531.6-0.6-3.1

Source: Statistics Norway

Figure 1. Taxi transport. Turnover and number of trips

The taxi industry carried out 8.0 million trips in the 1st quarter of 2015. This is 0.2 per cent more than in the same quarter last year but 4.8 per cent less than in the 1st quarter of 2013. Customers used 32.5 per cent of the offered hours; a decrease of 0.6 per cent compared to the same quarter in the previous year. In the reporting period, taxis drove a total of 138 million kilometres; 0.7 per cent less than in the 1st quarter of 2014.

Turnover per trip in the 1st quarter of 2015 went up to NOK 273 from NOK 266 in the 1st quarter of 2014; an increase of 2.6 per cent.