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20-573: The Keio Inokashira Line ( 京王井の頭線 , Keiō Inokashira-sen ) is a railway line operated by the Japanese private railway operator Keio Corporation in the western suburbs of Tokyo , connecting Shibuya in Tokyo with Kichijōji in Musashino City. It is not physically connected to the Keio Main Line Network , but a transfer is available at Meidaimae Station . This line is 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) gauge, unlike other Keio lines which are 1,372 mm ( 4 ft 6 in ) gauge. Keio operates two types of trains on

40-537: A public transit railway owned and operated by private sector, almost always organized as a joint-stock company , or in Japanese: kabushiki gaisha (lit. stock company), but may be any type of private business entity. Although the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies are also kabushiki gaishas, they are not classified as private railways because of their unique status as the primary successors of

60-520: A strike is severely limited by government legislation; there is very little tolerance for railway work stoppage. Employees of private railways may legally strike but its unheard of in Japan. There have only been two notable railroad strikes in Japanese history, both by employees of government run entities (government employees are legally barred from striking): One in 1973, and a major strike protesting

80-706: A variety of other businesses that depend on the traffic generated through their transit systems: hotels, department stores, supermarkets, resorts, and real estate development and leasing. Japanese railways, whether government run, semi-public, or private business, are subject to the regulations enforced by the Railway Bureau  [ ja ] of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism . They may join unions such as National Railway Workers' Union and General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions of Japan , but their abilities to call

100-479: Is commonly measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), rather than cargo weight, e.g. a TEU-km would be the equivalent of one twenty-foot container transported one kilometer. Transportation density can be defined as the payload per period, say passenger / day or tonne / day. This can be used as the measure of intensity of the transportation on a particular section or point of transportation infrastructure, say road or railway. This can be used in comparison with

120-506: Is more favorable. Freight is measured in mass-distance . A simple unit of freight is the kilogram-kilometre (kgkm), the service of moving one kilogram of payload a distance of one kilometre. The metric units (pkm and tkm) are used internationally. (In aviation where United States customary units are widely used, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) releases its statistics in

140-828: The Japanese National Railways (JNR). Voluntary sector railways (semi-public) are additionally not classified as shitetsu due to their origins as rural, money-losing JNR lines that have since been transferred to local possession, in spite of their organizational structures being corporatized. Among private railways in Japan, the Japan Private Railway Association  [ ja ] categorizes 16 companies as "major" operators. They are often profitable and tend to be less expensive per passenger-kilometer than JR trains that also run less dense regional routes. Private railways corporations in Japan also run and generate profits from

160-648: The Odakyu Group . The track gauge used was the same 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) as for other Odakyu lines, and the overhead power supply was 600 V DC. The line was extended to Kichijōji in April 1934. In May 1940, the company merged with the Odakyu Electric Railway , and on 1 May 1942, Odakyu merged with Tokyo Yokohama Electric Railway ( 東京横浜電鉄 ) to become a part of Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway (present-day Tokyu Corporation ), with

180-625: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (pending privatization). The Japan Private Railway Association counts Tokyo Metro as one of the 16 major private railways. In the United States , a private railroad is a railroad owned by a company and serves only that company, and does not hold itself out as a "common carrier" (i.e., it does not provide rail transport services for the general public). Passenger-kilometer The units of measurement in transportation describes

200-436: The unit of measurement used to express various transportation quantities , as used in statistics, planning, and their related applications. The currently popular units are: Passenger-distance is the distance (km or miles) travelled by passengers on transit vehicles ; determined by multiplying the number of unlinked passenger trips by the average length of their trips. Passengers per hour per direction (pphpd) measures

220-696: The Inokashira Line. From 30 April 1971, the 3000 series trains were lengthened to 5-cars, and from 15 December 1971, limited-stop "Express" services started. From 22 February 2013, station numbering was introduced on Keio lines. Inokashira Line stations were numbered prefixed with the letters "IN". This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Misplaced Pages Private railway In Japan , private sector railway ( 私鉄 or 民鉄 , Shitetsu or Mintetsu ) , commonly simply private railway , refers to

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240-824: The Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety Volume of traffic, or vehicle miles traveled (VMT), is a predictor of crash incidence. All other things being equal, as VMT increases, so will traffic crashes. The relationship may not be simple, however; after a point, increasing congestion leads to reduced speeds, hanging the proportion of crashes that occur at different severity levels. Energy efficiency in transport can be measured in L/100 ;km or miles per gallon (mpg). This can be normalized per vehicle, as in fuel economy in automobiles , or per seat, as for example in fuel economy in aircraft . MacNeal 1994 discusses

260-601: The Teito Line renamed the Inokashira Line. After World War II , Greater Tokyu was divided, and the Inokashira Line came under Keio ownership. A line known as the Daita Link Line ( 代田連絡線 , Daita-renraku-sen ) connected Daita-nichōme Station (now Shindaita Station ) on the Inokashira Line with Setagaya-Nakahara Station (now Setagaya-Daita Station ) on the Odakyū Odawara Line from June 1945, but this

280-522: The United States, the unit is used as an aggregate in yearly federal publications, while its usage is more sporadic in other countries. For instance, it appears to compare different kind of roads in some publications as it had been computed on a five-year period between 1995 and 2000. In the United States, it is computed per 100 million miles traveled, while internationally it is computed in 100 million or 1 billion kilometers traveled. According to

300-471: The breakup (and layoffs of tens of thousands of employees) of JNR in 1985. Though private railways such as industrial railways have existed in Japan they are not deemed shitetsu nor mintetsu in Japanese, as their purpose is not public transit. Tokyo Metro is a member of Japan Private Railway Association but is under special laws and its stock is owned by the Japanese Government and

320-407: The construction, running costs of the infrastructure. Fatalities by VMT ( vehicle miles traveled ) is a unit for assessing road traffic fatalities. This metric is computed by dividing the fatalities by the estimated VMT. Usually, transport risk is computed by reference to the distance traveled by people, while for road traffic risk, only vehicle traveled distance is usually taken into account. In

340-490: The line: all-stations "Local" ( 各停 , Kakutei ) or ( Kakueki Teisha ( 各駅停車 ) ) services and limited-stop Express ( 急行 , Kyūkō ) services. During the daytime off-peak, one local and one express operate every 8 minutes on the line. All stations are in Tokyo. The line opened in 1933, dual track connecting Shibuya in Tokyo to Inokashira-kōen , owned by Teito Electric Railway ( 帝都電鉄 , Teito Dentetsu ) , part of

360-439: The maximum route capacity of a transport system. A system may carry a high number of passengers per distance (km or mile) but a relatively low number of passengers per bus hour if vehicles operate in congested areas and thus travel at slower speed. A transit system serving a community with a widely dispersed population must operate circuitous routes that tend to carry fewer passengers per distance (km or mile). A higher number

380-474: The metric units.) In the US, sometimes United States customary units are used. The dimension of the measure is the product of the payload mass and the distance transported. A semi truck traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago (approximate distance 2,015 miles) carrying 14 short tons of cargo delivers a service of 14 * 2,015 = 28,210 ton-miles of freight (equal to about 41,187 tkm). Intermodal container traffic

400-479: Was closed in 1952. The track and overhead wire was entirely removed in 1953, although some traces of the trackbed remain today. Two stations, Tōdaimae ( 東大前駅 , Tōdaimae-eki ) and Komaba ( 駒場駅 , Komaba-eki ) , closed in July 1965 and were replaced by a new station, Komaba-Tōdaimae Station . From 25 February 1969, following the voltage being increased to 1500 V DC, air-conditioned trains were introduced on

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