, is a traffic / transport term that describes the number of trips or (more common) percentage of travelers using a particular type of transportation.
of transport within a city or region. In recent years, many cities have set modal share targets for sustainable transport modes, particularly cycling and public transport.
The following table presents the modal split of journeys to work in European cities with a population above 250,000.
| City | |walking | | cycling | | public transport | | private motor vehicle | year |
|---|
| DEN Aarhus Aarhus, or Århus , is the second largest city and the principal port of Denmark, situated on the peninsula of Jutland. Aarhus is the seat of the council of Aarhus municipality with 303,318 inhabitants and claims the unofficial title "Capital of Jutland"...
|
7% |
27% |
19% |
43% |
2004 |
| ESP Alicante Alicante or Alacant is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of the Alacantí, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. It is also a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city of Alicante proper was 331,750, estimated , ranking as the...
|
18% |
0% |
13% |
69% |
2004 |
NED AmsterdamAmsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...
|
4% |
22% |
30% |
44% |
2004 |
ITA BariBari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
|
13% |
1% |
14% |
72% |
2001 |
GER BerlinBerlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
|
8% |
7% |
40% |
45% |
2004 |
| SUI Bern |
11% |
11% |
54% |
24% |
2001 |
ESP BilbaoBilbao is the largest city in the Basque Country in northern Spain and the capital of the province of Biscay ....
|
23% |
0% |
34% |
43% |
2004 |
UK BirminghamBirmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. Birmingham is the second-most populous British city, with a population of 1,006,500 ....
|
1% |
1% |
25% |
66% |
2001 |
| ITA Bologna Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of northern Italy...
|
8% |
4% |
21% |
67% |
2001 |
GER BonnBonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990...
|
9% |
13% |
21% |
57% |
2004 |
SLO BratislavaBratislava is the capital of the Slovak Republic and, with a population of about 429,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River...
|
4% |
0% |
70% |
26% |
2004 |
GER BremenThe City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A port city along the river Weser, about south from its mouth on the North Sea, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area...
|
7% |
19% |
24% |
50% |
2004 |
FIN HelsinkiHelsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it the most populous municipality in Finland by a wide margin...
|
12% |
6% |
40% |
41% |
2004 |
DEN CopenhagenCopenhagen ; ) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,167,569 and a metropolitan area with a population of 1,875,179...
|
6% |
36% |
29% |
26% |
2004 |
ESP Córdoba||-||-||}Córdoba is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. Located at 37.88° North, 4.77° West, on the Guadalquivir river, it was founded in ancient Roman times as Corduba by Claudius Marcellus...
|
18% |
1% |
10% |
71% |
2004 |
GER DortmundDortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the 7th-largest city in Germany, and 34th-largest in the European Union....
|
7% |
3% |
23% |
67% |
2004 |
GER DresdenDresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
|
9% |
9% |
27% |
55% |
2004 |
GER DüsseldorfDüsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the second most international and economically important centre of Germany, after Frankfurt, and is located in the center of the Rhein-Ruhr area, Europe's most populated metropolitan area...
|
11% |
5% |
31% |
53% |
2004 |
NED EindhovenEindhoven is a municipality and a city located in the province of Noord-Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams...
|
3% |
24% |
8% |
65% |
2004 |
GER EssenEssen is a city in the central part of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Located on the Ruhr River, its population of approximately 579,000 makes it either the 7th- or 8th-largest-city in Germany...
|
9% |
2% |
20% |
69% |
2004 |
| ITA Firenze Firenze is the Italian name for the city of Florence.Firenze may also refer to:*Andrea da Firenze, an Italian composer*Lorenzo da Firenze, an Italian composer and music teacher of the trecento...
|
8% |
4% |
21% |
69% |
2001 |
| GER Frankfurt am Main |
11% |
7% |
39% |
43% |
2004 |
| GER Freiburg im Breisgau |
11% |
13% |
12% |
63% |
2004 |
ESP GijónGijón , is a coastal industrial city and a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain. Early mediaeval texts mention it as "Gigia". It was an important regional Roman city, although the area has been settled since earliest history...
|
24% |
0% |
17% |
59% |
2004 |
| SWE Göteborg |
12% |
14% |
21% |
52% |
2004 |
GER HamburgHamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
|
8% |
8% |
33% |
51% |
2004 |
GER HanoverHanover or Hannover , on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, in their dignities as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg Hanover or Hannover , on the river Leine, is...
|
9% |
13% |
29% |
49% |
2004 |
| GER Köln KOLN, digital channel 10, is the CBS affiliate in Lincoln, Nebraska. It operates a satellite station, KGIN, on digital channel 11 in Grand Island. KGIN repeats all KOLN programming, but airs separate commercials...
|
8% |
9% |
27% |
56% |
2004 |
| ESP Las Palmas |
12% |
0% |
24% |
64% |
2004 |
POR LisbonLisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the district of Lisbon and the main city of the Lisbon region...
|
10% |
0% |
46% |
40% |
2001 |
| ESP Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. It is the third-most populous municipality in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the third-most populous city by urban area in the European Union after Paris and London.The city is located on the river...
|
9% |
0% |
43% |
48% |
2004 |
ESP MálagaMálaga is a city in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. It is the second most populous city of Andalusia, the sixth largest in Spain and 43rd-most populous municipality in the European Union, with a population of 566,447 in 2008...
|
12% |
0% |
11% |
77% |
2004 |
SWE MalmöMalmö is the third most populous city in Sweden, situated in its southernmost province of Scania.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County. The administrative entity for most of the city is Malmö Municipality which has 290 007 inhabitants in eight different...
|
6% |
24% |
18% |
51% |
2004 |
| GER München |
9% |
8% |
41% |
41% |
2004 |
| ESP Murcia Murcia is a city in south-eastern Spain, capital of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, located along the river Segura. Its current population is 433,850 , ranking seventh in Spain, and the population of the metropolitan area is 743,326, ranking ninth out of the largest metropolitan...
|
18% |
1% |
7% |
74% |
2004 |
| ITA Napoli |
13% |
0% |
26% |
60% |
2001 |
| GER Nürnberg |
11% |
7% |
30% |
52% |
2004 |
ITA PalermoPalermo is a historic city in Southern Italy, the capital of the autonomous region Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its rich history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
|
12% |
1% |
9% |
78% |
2001 |
| ITA Roma Roma may refer to:*People** the Romani people ** Roma, a subgroup of the Romani people*Sports** A.S. Roma, an Italian football team** Virtus Roma, Basketball team** Roma Esporte Apucarana, a Brazilian football team...
|
7% |
0% |
24% |
68% |
2001 |
NED RotterdamRotterdam ; city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, situated in the west of the Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the country, with a population of 584,046 as of January 2007...
|
5% |
14% |
25% |
56% |
2004 |
SWE Stockholm' is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the Riksdag , and the official residence of the Swedish Monarch as well as the prime minister. The Monarch resides at Drottningholm Palace outside of Stockholm since 1980 and uses the Royal Palace of...
|
15% |
7% |
43% |
33% |
2004 |
NED The HagueThe Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 485,818 and an area of approximately 100 km²...
|
5% |
22% |
30% |
43% |
2004 |
| ESP Sevilla |
13% |
1% |
15% |
71% |
2004 |
GER StuttgartStuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
|
13% |
4% |
32% |
51% |
2004 |
EST TallinnTallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies a surface of in which 405,867 inhabitants live. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki.-Historical names:...
|
16% |
0% |
50% |
34% |
2004 |
| ITA Torino |
12% |
3% |
5% |
79% |
2004 |
NED UtrechtUtrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern end of the Randstad, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands, with a population of 300,030 in 2007...
|
3% |
21% |
25% |
51% |
2004 |
| ESP Valencia -In Spain:* Valencia, Spain, capital of the Valencia Autonomous Community* Valencian Community* Comunitat Valenciana cycling team , formerly Kelme * Valencia , in the Valencia Autonomous Community...
|
16% |
1% |
21% |
62% |
2004 |
| ESP Valladolid ||-||} is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, upon the Pisuerga River and within the Ribera del Duero wine-making region. It is the capital of the province of Valladolid and of the autonomous community of Castile and Leon.- Etymology :...
|
22% |
1% |
20% |
57% |
2004 |
ESP VigoVigo is the largest city in Galicia, Spain, located in the province of Pontevedra.It has a population of 295,703, with an extended metropolitan population of 468,654, making it the 14th-largest metropolitan area of Spain. Vigo is the largest city in Spain which is not a provincial...
|
19% |
0% |
13% |
68% |
2004 |
| ESP Zaragoza Zaragoza, also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza province and of the autonomous community and former Kingdom of Aragon, Spain...
|
17% |
0% |
29% |
54% |
2004 |
| SUI Zürich Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne...
|
8% |
5% |
63% |
25% |
2001 |
The Charter of Brussels signed by 36 cities including Brussels, Gent, Milan, Munich, Sevilla, Edinburgh, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Gdansk, Timisoara calls for European institutions, as well as commit themselves to achieve at least 15% of bicycling modal share by 2020.