» This article's about passengers in commercial transportation; for other uses see Passenger (disambiguation) A passenger's a term broadly used to describe any person who travels in a vehicle, but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination. There're two common contexts in which the term's used: The first's for persons transported in automobiles or vans, irrespective of whether they've paid for the transportation. The second's for pers… (More on Passenger)