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Trends in passenger transport demand and GDP

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Trends in passenger transport demand and GDP

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Methodology:

See indicator specification for CSI35

Units:

The unit used to express passenger transport volume is the passenger-kilometre (pkm), which represents one passenger travelling a distance of one kilometre. It is based on transport by cars, buses and coaches, and trains. Estimates of passenger transport by air are also included in some of the calculations, where stated.

Passenger transport demand and GDP are shown as an index (2000=100). The ratio of the former to the latter is indexed on year t-1 (i.e. annual decoupling/intensity changes) in order to be able to observe changes in the annual intensity of passenger transport demand relative to economic growth (GDP).

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Additional information

The two curves show the development in GDP and passenger transport volumes, while the columns show the level of annual decoupling. Green indicates faster growth in GDP than in transport while blue indicates stronger growth in transport than in GDP. The data refer to road, rail and bus modes of passenger transport.

Data for 2007. Switzerland data are for 2005. No data available for Cyprus, Malta and Liechtenstein. There is no agreement among the EU Member States on how to attribute the passenger-kilometres of international intra-EU flights, therefore data for air passenger travels are deemed unreliable and not included.