Transport Statistics 6 is the number of hours it takes to travel from London to New York by plane. 44 is the number of platforms at NewYork’s Grand Central Terminal Station. Half a million people use the station every day. 209 kilometers an hour is the speed of the Spanish AVE train, which goes from the capital city Madrid to Seville, in the south of Spain, a distance of 470 kilometers. The journey takes about two and a half hours. 567 is the number of passengers who can travel in a Boeing 747-400 aeroplane. It can fly more than 12000 kilometers without stopping. That’s from London to Tokyo and back again. 9 , 297 kilometers is the distance of the Trans-Siberian railway, which goes from Moscow to the town of Vladivostok in eastern Russia. The journey takes seven days. 60,000 is the number of taxis in Mexico City. 6,000,000 is the total kilometers of roads in the United States. 43,000,000 is the number of people who travel through Heathrow Airport, near London, every year.