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Passenger Transport 2019

6.1 Transport of passengers by mode in EU 28, 1995-2016 (billion pkm)

Passenger Cars P2W Bus & Coach Rail -way Tram & Metro Air Sea Total
1995 3 904  113  515  350  74  348  31 5 335
1996 3 968  114  519  355  75  368  31 5 431
1997 4 047  119  522  356  76  392  30 5 542
1998 4 145  123  526  356  77  411  30 5 667
1999 4 255  127  528  363  79  427  30 5 808
2000 4 301  105  551  372  80  460  29 5 897
2001 4 387  109  550  374  81  455  29 5 986
2002 4 464  111  542  366  82  447  30 6 041
2003 4 495  114  549  362  82  466  30 6 098
2004 4 552  117  550  369  85  496  30 6 198
2005 4 508  121  549  378  86  530  29 6 201
2006 4 549  120  546  390  88  552  28 6 274
2007 4 597  116  559  397  90  575  28 6 362
2008 4 602  121  570  413  94  563  32 6 394
2009 4 675  118  548  405  93  524  27 6 392
2010 4 626  119  544  407  96  535  25 6 352
2011 4 593  123  548  416  97  577  22 6 376
2012 4 498  123  546  421  99  570  21 6 278
2013 4 549  122  544  427  99  580  21 6 342
2014 4 615  125  540  434  101  610  22 6 446
2015 4 712  125  550  443  102  640  22 6 593
2016 4 829  126  552  450  106  713  25 6 802
1995 -2016 23,7% 12,2% 7,2% 28,5% 43,3% 105,1% -18,8% 27,5%
per year 1,0% 0,5% 0,3% 1,2% 1,7% 3,5% -1,0% 1,2%
2000-2016 12,3% 20,7% 0,1% 21,1% 31,9% 55,3% -13,6% 15,3%
per year 0,7% 1,2% 0,0% 1,2% 1,7% 2,8% -0,9% 0,9%
2015-2016 2,5% 1,0% 0,3% 1,7% 3,4% 11,6% 15,6% 3,2%

Source: EC
Notes:
In italics: Estimates
Air and Sea: only domestic and intra-EU-28 transport; provisional estimates
P2W: Powered two-wheelers

6.2 Evolution of passenger transport by mode in EU 28, 1995-2016

Source: EC
Notes:
Air and Sea: only domestic and intra-EU-28 transport; provisional estimates

6.3 Passenger transport modal split in EU 28, 2016 (pkm in %)

Source: EC
Notes:
Air and Sea: only domestic and intra-EU-28 transport; provisional estimates Air and Sea: only domestic and intra-EU-28 transport; provisional estimates
P2W: Powered two-wheelers

6.4 Modal split of passenger transport on land by country in EU countries, 2016 ( billion pkm and pkm in %)

Passenger cars
(billion pkm)		 Passenger  cars (%) Buses and coaches*
(billion pkm)		 Buses and coaches (%)   Railways
(billion pkm)		 Railways (%) Urban rail*
(tram & metro)
(billion pkm)		 Urban rail
(tram & metro) (%)		 TOTAL
(billion pkm)
BE 106,1 81,01 13,6 10,37 10,0 7,65 1,3 0,01 131,02
BG 56,6 79,64 12,2 17,17 1,5 2,05 0,8 0,01 71,11
CZ 72,3 66,51 16,7 15,38 8,7 8,04 10,9 0,10 108,64
DK 59,1 81,14 7,1 9,73 6,3 8,70 0,3 0,00 72,82
DE 946,8 84,26 64,0 5,70 95,8 8,53 17,1 0,02 1.123,73
EE 12,8 79,50 2,9 17,74 0,3 1,96 0,1 0,01 16,15
IE 55,0 79,65 11,9 17,20 2,0 2,88 0,2 0,00 69,09
EL 99,9 80,80 20,9 16,90 1,2 0,96 1,7 0,01 123,67
ES 329,9 80,11 47,8 11,60 26,7 6,48 7,5 0,02 411,80
FR 742,5 80,04 81,1 8,74 87,8 9,46 16,3 0,02 927,71
HR 26,2 83,33 3,8 12,10 0,8 2,63 0,6 0,02 31,42
IT 704,5 81,31 103,0 11,89 52,2 6,02 6,8 0,01 866,53
CY 6,5 81,38 1,5 18,62 – – 7,95
LV 13,9 82,76 2,2 13,02 0,6 3,48 0,1 0,01 16,79
LT 25,9 89,88 2,6 9,15 0,3 0,97 – 28,77
LU 7,5 83,13 1,1 12,26 0,4 4,61 – 9,05
HU 56,7 66,51 17,8 20,91 7,7 8,98 3,1 0,04 85,21
MT 2,6 82,61 0,5 17,39 – – 3,14
NL 140,8 85,50 5,0 3,02 18,0 10,92 0,9 0,01 164,68
AT 80,4 72,59 10,6 9,57 12,6 11,40 7,2 0,06 110,81
PL 203,8 77,17 36,8 13,93 19,2 6,70 4,3 0,02 264,07
PT 90,5 88,22 6,8 6,59 4,3 4,10 1,1 0,01 102,55
RO 95,6 74,97 18,7 14,70 5,0 4,50 8,2 0,06 127,50
SI 26,5 86,26 3,6 11,75 0,6 2,50 – 30,70
SK 27,8 74,21 5,9 15,70 3,5 7,00 0,3 0,01 37,51
FI 57,0 81,84 8,3 11,85 3,9 5,20 0,5 0,01 69,66
SE 114,5 81,93 9,8 7,05 12,8 8,90 2,6 0,02 139,76
UK 667,5 85,03 35,9 4,57 68,0 8,00 13,7 0,02 785,09
EU 28 4829,26 81,34% 551,99 9,30% 450,05 7,58% 105,63 1,78% 5.936,94

Source: national statistics, International Transport Forum, Eurostat, estimates (in italics)
Notes:
Data is not harmonised and therefore not fully comparable. 2016 data may be provisional. Data sometimes includes activity of foreign vehicles performed within the country, therefore EU aggregates might be affected by double-counting. Generally vans are not considered in this table, but there may be exceptions.
FR: passenger-km include transport activity on the territory of vehicles not registered in France. Includes foreign vans.
UK: data refer to Great Britain only; include pkm by vans
DE: includes DE-E: 1970=24.5, 1980=56.0, 1990=90.3
CH: includes activity of foreign vehicles in the country.
TR: excludes urban traffic.
DK: figures exclude activity of vans with a mass higher than 2 000 kg.
PL: estimated activity

6.5 Passenger vehicles in EU countries, 2016

Stock of registered
passenger cars
(thousand)		 Stock of registered
PTW
(thousand)		 Stock of registered buses & coaches (thousand)
BE 5730,98 471,77 15,97
BG 3143,50 171,70 23,40
CZ 5307,81 1074,88 20,88
DK 2465,54 199,42 13,42
DE 45803,56 4314,49 78,95
EE 703,10 48,80 4,80
IE 2048,65 38,02 9,84
EL 5235,93 1656,66 26,48
ES 22876,83 5199,01 61,84
FR 32074,20 2357,27 100,30
HR 1552,90 152,87 5,51
IT 37876,14 9083,66 97,82
CY 508,28 39,24 2,84
LV 664,18 49,58 4,70
LT 1298,74 39,71 6,93
LU 390,94 29,25 1,90
HU 3313,21 162,15 18,48
MT 282,93 22,29 2,00
NL 8222,97 1834,29 9,82
AT 4821,56 816,48 9,83
PL 21675,39 2647,83 113,14
PT 4850,23 550,09 14,85
RO 5472,42 119,53 48,80
SI 1096,52 103,68 2,68
SK 2121,77 95,27 9,09
FI 3346,01 591,80 17,54
SE 4768,06 648,98 13,89
UK 31834,39 1270,20 113,91
EU 28 259486,73 33788,93 849,59
AL 436,01 36,10 7,05
ME 193,24 4,74 1,37
MK 394,93 11,70 3,23
RS 1888,30 64,39 9,63
TR 11318,00 3003,73 684,29

Source: EC
Notes:
National vehicle stock data do not always include all powered two-wheelers and are therefore not fully comparable between countries.
Tricycles and quads are sometimes included in the data.
Stock at end of year, except for BE: 1 August, CH: 30 September, LI: 1 July.
Data include buses, coaches, minibuses and sometimes also trolleybuses.

6.6 Motorisation in EU countries, 2016

Motorisation (number of passenger cars per 1.000 inhabitants)
BE 505
BG 443
CZ 502
DK 429
DE 555
EE 534
IE 428
EL 486
ES 492
FR 479
HR 374
IT 625
CY 595
LV 341
LT 456
LU 662
HU 338
MT 615
NL 481
AT 550
PL 571
PT 470
RO 279
SI 531
SK 390
FI 608
SE 477
UK 484
EU28 507
AL 152
ME 310
MK 190
RS 268
TR 142

Source: EC
Notes:
Passenger car stock at end of year n divided by the population on 1 January of year n+1

6.7 New passenger car registration per 1.000 inhabitants in EU countries, 2017

Motorisation (number of passenger cars per 1.000 inhabitants)
LU 89
BE 48
DE 42
AT 40
UK 39
DK 39
SE 38
SI 34
IT 33
FR 32
EU 28 30
IE 27
ES 27
CZ 26
NL 24
FI 22
PT 22
EE 19
SK 18
CY 15
PL 13
HR 12
HU 12
LV 9
LT 9
EL 8
RO 5
BG 4

Source: ACE

6.8 Motorcycle registrations in EU countries, 2010-2018

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
AT 21.510 22.750 24.808 26.020 25.192 24.891 29.763 24.893 26.038
BE 24.270 25.043 23.921 20.648 20.681 21.577 23.621 21.390 23.936
BG – – 127 173 116 169 – – –
CY – – – – – – – – –
CZ – – – 12.102 12.442 13.424 14.086 12.330 13.946
DE 122.394 127.009 127.603 129.756 141.623 151.661 174.624 140.667 156.108
DK 3.258 2.032 1.983 1.869 1.936 2.417 3.139 2.806 3.415
EE 244 299 364 409 449 489 609 511 595
EL 59.638 44.785 31.805 28.522 30.951 32.468 38.632 27.473 32.575
ES 134.297 119.438 97.944 92.409 111.463 132.539 155.004 136.180 159.946
FI 6.054 5.692 4.986 3.967 3.467 3.157 3.022 2.829 3.207
FR 198.086 185.122 169.644 148.203 153.324 153.242 163.335 162.808 177.460
HR – – – – 1.510 1.511 1.811 2.216 2.781
HU 2.453 2.091 1.957 1.989 1.886 2.093 2.204 2.274 3.051
IE 1.042 831 663 441 800 1.022 1.470 1.311 1.371
IT 306.307 254.906 206.303 154.100 156.539 172.066 195.405 204.579 219.694
LT 230 281 224 241 294 294 390 367 416
LU 1.255 1.306 1.201 1.566 1.734 1.654 1.783 1.838 2.007
LV 278 472 494 477 589 595 642 624 791
MT – – – – – – – – –
NL 12.848 11.660 10.611 9.570 10.667 11.673 12.855 13.057 13.891
PL 8.719 8.957 7.760 7.394 9.848 23.865 25.823 15.025 14.550
PT 18.896 18.937 17.180 14.594 15.424 17.611 19.760 24.809 28.326
RO 558 469 555 521 593 648 952 1.115 1.525
SE 9.023 8.219 7.602 7.780 8.378 9.422 13.220 9.716 10.367
SK 2.018 1.660 1.643 1.292 1.707 1.855 2.074 2.269 2.347
SI – 1.960 1.920 2.840 – 5.309 5.565 4.923 5.281
UK 81.397 79.721 80.874 81.646 91.509 105.717 119.889 97.713 100.439
EU 28 1.029.160 935.562 822.172 748.529 803.122 891.369 1.009.678 913.723 1.004.063

Source: ACEM

6.9 Transport of passengers per mode - Comparison EU 28/World

Passenger transport EU 28 (2016) USA (2016) Japan (2015) China (2016) Russia (2016)
(billion pkm)
Passenger car 4.829,3 6.315,4 – 1.022,9 –
Bus, trolley-bus and coach 552,0 558,1 71,4 – 129,8
Railway 450,1 40,2 427 1.257,9 124,6
Tram and metro 105,6 23,5 – – 48,7
Waterborne 25,0 0,8 2,9 7,2 0,7
Air (domestic/intra EU) 713,5 1.079,0 88,2 837,8 215,6

Source: Eurostat, Japan Statistics Bureau, US Bureau of Transportation Statisitics, Goskom STAT (Russia), National Bureau of Statistics of China, International Transport Forum, estimates (in italics)
Notes:
(1): USA: Including light trucks / vans
(2): China: including buses and coaches
(3): Japan: included in railway pkm

6.10 Motorisation: Comparison EU 28/ World, 2016 ( cars/ 1000 inhabitants)

Source: EC

6.11 Trends and outlooks in passenger transport demand for the different modes of transport in EU, 1990-2030 (Gpkm)