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    Trains overtake buses: EU travel habits slowly shifting

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    1. nimicdoareu on

      In 2024, cars were the most used means of transportation in the EU.

      Cars accounted for 69.2% of total passenger-kilometres (estimated at 6 130 billion passenger-kilometres), indicating a decrease of 1.0 percentage point (pp) compared with 2023.

      Transport by airplane made up 15.8% of total passenger-kilometres, up by 1.0 pp from 2023.

      Trains followed with 7.5% (+0.3 pp compared with 2023), surpassing buses, coaches or trolleybuses at 7.3% (-0.2 pp), and sea vessels at 0.4% (unchanged).

      The share of trains has seen a slow increase in recent years, exceeding the share of buses, coaches or trolleybuses in 2024 for the first time since 2014.

    3. RealSpaceJunk on

      I switched from buses to my bike because my bike is faster and more reliable. Buses just suck.

    4. chabacanito on

      That’s strange. In Barcelona there’s been the opposite, more and more buses for commutes because the train sucks so much. For example my small town has a 1h 5 min train to Barcelona but it’s 40 minutes in the bus. Who would take the train? There’s almost nobody getting off in the intermediate stations (there’s people getting on of course).

    5. DuskLab on

      Why are bicycles not in the dataset? Netherlands is down as 77% by car and the second highest in the EU which seems like the lack of bike numbers is skewing this.

      Why is Croatia at 45% of the distance traveled by aircraft? Bulgaria is 30%? That’s your estimate? Really?