What? "American railroads accounted for just 17.2 billion passenger-kilometres in 2010, according to Amtrak, America's government-backed passenger rail corpora

What? "American railroads accounted for just 17.2 billion passenger-kilometres in 2010, according to Amtrak, America's government-backed passenger rail corporation. In the European Union, railways accounted for nearly 400 billion ..." (http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/08/economist-explains-18 http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/08/ec...)