Passenger

This article is about passengers in commercial transportation; for other uses see Passenger (disambiguation)

Passengers on a boat in the Danube delta

A passenger is a term broadly used to describe any person who travels in a vehicle, but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination.

The term is used to describe people who ride on buses, passenger trains, airliners, ships, ferryboats, and other methods of transportation.

Passenger is one who is carried by a public carrier from one place to another, whether for consideration or without it.

Crew members (if any), as well as the driver or pilot of the vehicle, are usually not considered to be passengers. For example, a flight attendant on an airline would not be considered a "passenger" while on duty, but an employee riding in a company car being driven by another person would be considered a passenger, even if the car was being driven on company business.

Railways

In railway parlance, 'passenger', as well as being the end user of a service, is also a categorisation of the type of rolling stock used. In the British case, there are several categories of passenger train. These categories include:

• 'Express passenger', which constitutes long distance and high speed railway travel between major locations such as ports and cities.
• 'Semi-fast express passenger', a type of service that is high speed, though stops at selected destinations of high population density en-route.
• 'Local passenger', the lowest category of British passenger train, which provides a service that stops at all stations between major destinations, for the benefit of local populations.

See also

• Able bodied passenger
• Revenue passenger