New Statistics Brief: public transport ridership in EU highest since 2000 | UITP - Advancing Public Transport
UITP is launching its first annual publication that tracks and analyses public transport demand trends in the EU Member States.
Nearly 57 billion local public transport journeys were made in the European Union in 2012. The pace of growth in public transport journeys since 2000 reflects fluctuations of the economic situation, the growth in urban population and some signs of emerging changes in urban mobility patterns.
The public transport sector plays a considerable role in managing and delivering sustainable urban mobility in the EU: there are approximately 182 million journeys being made on an average working day in the bloc.