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Mumbai locals ferry around 80 lac passengers daily based on the number of trips made.To find the answer to this, railway officials have hired surveyors who will travel on local trains and count passengers; authorities believe the current number is 80 lakhOut of these, two-thirds travel using a “season’s pass”, allowing them to pay one time for as many trips as required for a week, month, quarter, or year.According to officials, season passes are bought by nearly 65 percent of the total commuter base of 75 lakh people traveling on the suburban system. The option of skipping the queue while buying monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly passes will now be available on smartphones, which might lure more people into using them.An average pass costs around 250 rupees. The price changes based on your boarding and destination stations, but 250 is a middle-of-the-line estimate. (Note that this is only for second-class travel, which is the preferred option for most travelers).For 250, a person would make around 40 trips a month (2 journeys a day, 20 days a month), effectively costing them Rs 6 per trip.The average cost per trip on a single ticket is around Rs 15.Considering the mix of 1:2 of passengers using normal tickets to passengers using the monthly pass, the average cost of one trip is ~Rs 9.Now Mumbai locals, in 2014 have had revenues of ~Rs 2600 crore.~93% of these were from ticket sales, amounting to ~Rs 2400 crore. Considering the average cost of the trip, the total number of travelers should be 2400/9=270 crore. Considering 80 lac people travel daily, annual traveler number is ~290 crore.So only ~20 crore people annually travel ticketless (~9%).Which is quite surprising, since this is well within the error limits of this answer.Mumbai truly is a maximum city.

If an FBI agent is traveling on a plane, will he know about any US Air Marshal also on board, or is that classified?When an armed law enforcement officer flies commercially, he checks in at the counter and completes the “Armed Passenger Authorization” form for that particular airline. The LEO gets at least one copy of the form, which he presents to TSA at security, along with his credentials. At the gate, he checks in with the gate agent, who probably already has an airline copy of the authorization form. (United actually held a flight for me in Chicago one afternoon. My flight from Seattle came into a gate O’Hare that was literally as far from the gate to my connecting flight to DCA as it was possible to get and still be in the same terminal. A habit with United.) Sometimes, the LEO carries all the copies to the gate, sometimes the airline transmits them themselves.The gate agent gives one copy to the captain, who informs the flight crew. The LEO is expected to stop and introduce himself to the captain and first officer. The lead flight attendant will ensure that any armed passengers know about each other. Many times the gate agent will introduce armed passengers. Sometimes, they pick each other out of the crowd. I was flying out of San Jose one day when a woman walked up to where I was sitting and asked, “Does the number 1811 mean anything to you?” Turns out, she was an FBI agent and the gate agent had pointed me out to her. (1811 is the Federal job series for special agents/criminal investigators.)The bottom line is that armed passengers on a commercial aircraft, in the unlikely event of a hijacking, need to know, at least, what each other look like. At best, they get a chance to discuss who will do what to whom if that becomes necessary. If you fly armed, you’re also required to have a set of handcuffs on you. I carried my sidearm, reload, cuffs and a collapsible baton.It’s also not unheard of for the airline to draft you as a sort of security guard. I was flying back to Seattle from Reno once and the flight attendant pulled me aside and told me that my seatmate was a woman who had had some sort of intoxication induced episode the night before. She had bailed out, but the city cops had, literally, put her on the plane and the airline had seated her next to me “just in case.” Fortunately, she behaved herself. It got me a first-class upgrade, so I guess it was worthwhile.

Federal regulations generally prohibit truck drivers from picking up hitchhikers. To carry a passenger the driver must have the specific permission of the motor carrier. This applies to drivers who are employed by the motor carrier and also to drivers whose trucks are operating under the authority of the motor carrier, which includes most owner-operators. Drivers can usually obtain passenger authorizations for their spouses or children, but not likely for hitchhikers. Owner-operators with their own operating authority can pick up hitchhikers and grant the passenger authorization on the spot. However, in today’s world is it really a good idea to let a stranger into your truck? Probably not, for a lot of obvious reasons.