Indicator Fact Sheet

Passenger transport

Indicator Fact Sheet

Prod-ID: IND-35-en

Also known as: TERM 012

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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 012

Contents

Policy issue: Break the link between economic growth and passenger transport growth; improve the shares of rail, cycling and walking

Figures

Passenger transport by mode, 1980, 1998 and 2010 projection

Key assessment

Decoupling transport growth from economic growth, and stabilising the modal split at 1998 levels by 2010 are important objectives of the revised Common Transport Policy and the recently proposed EU strategy for sustainable development. However, during the past two decades, passenger transport growth has been closely coupled to the growth in GDP, and only a slight decoupling is expected by 2010. Passenger transport has increased by about 55 % over the past 20 years, with most growth in air and road transport. Growing car ownership, poor spatial planning and urban sprawl induces more urban passenger transport. Rising private incomes, in particular in the northern part of Europe, also boost tourism travel.