By Lindsay Wilson, January 12, 2014
Which Country Travels the most?
Which Country Travels the most?
Americans Love Their Cars
Americans Love Their Cars
Americans
travel 40% further than Canadians on the road each year, 60% more than
Australians and double the distance of Brits. The figures are total
road passenger kilometres per capita from 2010.
The Japanese Rule The Rails
The Japanese Rule The Rails
The
Japanese travel further by rail each year than anyone, at over 3,000
passenger kilometres per capita. The early adoption of high speed rail
networks between numerous large cities is key to that.
The Irish Have Grown Wings
The Irish Have Grown Wings
Decent
public data on distance flown per capita is thin on the ground. The
best I could do here was 'passengers carried per capita' by airlines
from that country. Ireland is off the charts due to Ryanair.
he Dutch Are Queens Of The Bicycle
he Dutch Are Queens Of The Bicycle
The
Dutch cycle an average of 2.5 km per day. Three times that of a
German, ten fold a Brit and twenty times more than Americans.
Data:
road, rail and air: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/, cycling:
Making Cycling Irresistible (Pucher, John and Buehler, Ralph (2008)