Indicator Fact Sheet

Occupancy rates of passenger vehicles

Indicator Fact Sheet

Prod-ID: IND-117-en

Also known as: TERM 029

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Topics: Transport

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Assessment made on 01 Jan 2001

Generic metadata

Classification

Topics:

Transport

DPSIR: Driving force

Identification

Indicator codes

TERM 029

Contents

Policy issue: Increase vehicle occupancy rates

Figures

Occupancy rates of passenger cars

Key assessment

Passenger car occupancy is falling in some countries (Portugal, Finland), but is rather stable as an EU average. This is despite EU efforts to increase utilisation efficiency, for example through its Citizens' Network strategy, which aims to develop traffic priority for vehicles with more than one person and promote car sharing initiatives.