The popularity of different transportation types in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, calculated by modal share.
This data is sourced from ‘The ABC of Mobility’ by Rafael Prieto-Curiel and Juan P. Ospina, published in Environmental International (Volume 185, 2024), accessed through ScienceDirect.
The authors of this study gathered data through travel surveys. They determined the primary mode of transportation a person employed for each trip they took during a typical weekday. This is called modal share. Data from 800 cities from 61 countries was collected for this study.
Region | Cars | Public Transport | Walking/Biking |
---|---|---|---|
North America | 92% | 5% | 4% |
Central America | 23% | 42% | 35% |
South America | 29% | 40% | 31% |
Northern Europe | 48% | 29% | 24% |
Western Europe | 43% | 24% | 34% |
Southern Europe | 50% | 24% | 25% |
Eastern Europe | 35% | 40% | 25% |
Southeastern Asia | 44% | 43% | 13% |
Western Asia | 43% | 28% | 29% |
Southern Asia | 22% | 39% | 39% |
Eastern Asia | 19% | 46% | 35% |
World | 51% | 26% | 22% |
*In this dataset, Mexico is included in Central America. Figures are rounded.
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