Ridership for high speed trains increased by 21%.
Istanbul-Ankara high speed train service which was opened on last quarter of 2014 had also helped this increase.
Ridership in High Speed Trains (million passengers)
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| 1.9 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 5.1 |
More increase had seen in passenger-km, which reached to 1.55 bn passenger-km with an increase of 30% compared with the previous year.
TCDD also carried 18 mn passengers with the normal-speed trains within Turkey.
Ridership in Passenger Trains (million passengers)
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| 22.1 | 23.6 | 16.5 | 16.7 | 17.8 |
International passenger train services to neighbor countries, declining every year, had increased after a long time in 2014.
Ridership in International Passenger Trains (1000 passengers)
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| 160 | 181 | 124 | 99 | 156 |
Suburban services hit a record with more than 130 mn passengers in 2014.
Ridership in Suburban Trains (million passengers)
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
| Istanbul/Marmaray | 48.7 | 52.7 | 50.4 | 21.1 | 43.6 |
| Ankara/Ankaray | 11.2 | 6.7 | – | 4.3 | 11.8 |
| Izmir/Izban | 2.6 | 35.4 | 50.4 | 61.2 | 75.2 |
| Sum | 62.5 | 94.8 | 100.8 | 86.6 | 130.6 |
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