GollumWhich European country has the most frequent train travellers?
julianwgsThis is the wrong statistic! It doesnt matter how often you take the train, but how far you go. There is something called a passenger kilometer. Someone traveling one kilometer by train makes one passenger kilometer, 6 people on a train going 10 kilometers makes 60 passengers kilometers. The same can be done for other modes of transportation. The modal split (the right statistic) then shows how much each mode of transportation is actually used. Here you can find the statistic for each country of the EU: eea.europa.eu/…/passenger-transport-modal-split-2…
A few examples why modal split is better than frequencies:
- Environmentally CO2 is emitted per kilometer. Someone may bike a short distance everyday to work, but visits his parents who live far away every weekend by car.
- On the way to work someone could take the car and the train on the same commute.
Sweet link! These stats are really cool. Low car and high bus usage seem to be very linked to poorer (relatively) countries. High train usage in general seems to be much wealthier countries, yet those countries also have way more car usage. Also this is very incomplete without looking at bicycle usage, and walking of course. This makes the percentages even more misleading because it’s a percentage among sampled transportation modes
Thanks, and good observations. Many countries (Germany and the Netherlands for example) have statistics for every mode of transportation, which as you said is way more informative. I just quickly grabbed the first statistic I could find for the EU to be honest :D
Here is the data for Germany: umweltbundesamt.de/…/fahrleistungen-verkehrsaufwa…
For the Netherlands they have the data split by county which is very interesting. In the bike capital Utrecht still 50% of all passenger kilometers belong to car travel. I cant find the government website right now.
Fahrleistungen, Verkehrsleistung und Modal Split
Im Personen- und im Güterverkehr steigen Fahrleistung und Verkehrsleistung über die Jahre in ihrer Tendenz an. In den Pandemiejahren 2020 und 2021 sanken beide Parameter im Personenverkehr im Vergleich zu den Vorjahren. Im Güterverkehr sank im Jahr 2023 die Verkehrsleistung bei allen Verkehrsträgern.
Wow, those are still way too high for car travel. I wonder how that’d compared to turkey, as they have 61% car travel but that’s not counting biking or walking.