New Metro (2020) 1(1): 60-63 SCIENCE POPULARIZATION How Far Can You Travel by Metro for Five Yuan? Xu Tianjie1,*, Rao Ya1 1Shanghai Rail Transit Industry Information Center, Shanghai, 201103, China. *Corresponding author:
[email protected] © The Authors 2020 Article history: Received: 20-02-2020; Revised; 15-03-2020; Accepted: 25-03-2020 With 5 Yuan, you can buy a small piece of bread or to know the metro ticket systems and pricing rules two bottles of water. If you are thinking about applied by the cities in China. There are two major travelling, public transportation will be the only dominating ticket systems in China, zone-based option; and if you want to reach the destination pricing and distance-based pricing. The detailed quickly and comfortably, the metro will be your first pricing methods and representative cities are choice. Then with 5 Yuan in hand, how far can you summarized in the table below. travel by metro? To answer this question, Shanghai Rail Transit Industry Information Center has collected the latest data on metro fares in 33 cities in China and drawn the chart, as shown in figure 1. As shown in figure 1, you can travel for at least 18km with 5 Yuan (in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Dongguan, Xiamen, Guiyang, and Lanzhou, where a trip longer than 18km will be charged from 6 Yuan); while in Zhengzhou you can travel the farthest – as long as it does not exceed 30km, 5 Yuan is enough. However, passengers in Harbin, Tianjin, and Dalian may have some different opinions concerning the results.