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Ticket sales for metropolitan railway services (Cercanías) decreased by 70.5%. The 155.5 million passengers transported in 2019 fell to 45.9 million in the same period of 2020. Madrid and Barcelona, which saw a drop in the amount of passengers by over 70%, accounted for over 80% of all metropolitan railway trips in Spain. Next came València (accounting for 3% of the total amount of passengers), Málaga, Bilbao and Seville (Sevilla).
The widespread of home office, the introduction of flexible working hours and the improvements in electronic ticketing and capacity control systems also influenced figures on urban transport (Báguena, 2020). Another factor that contributed to the decrease in urban transport was the temporary closure of universities and schools and the switch to online lessons. However, this varied from one region to another.
A study on the use of rail transport (including underground, metropolitan railway and tram services) in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona relating the variation in tickets used on working days in relation to the average figures in the different neighbourhoods, yields an interesting result. On 16 March 2020, the amount of trips in the lower-income neighbourhoods reached 27.4% of those made in January and February of the same year. However, for the higher-income areas, this datum stood by only 13.2 % (Checa, J., Martín, J., López, J. and Nel·lo, O., 2020). This finding is depicted on the maps included in chapter 11 on the ''[[Barcelona_and_its_metropolitan_area|Different spatial behaviours]]''.
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