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Which European country has the most frequent train travellers? (i.imgur.com)

submitted 11 months ago by genfood@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/verkehr/fahrleistungen-verkehrsaufwand-modal-split#undefined

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.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

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.