Passenger transport up by 2.2% in 2005 in the EU25
Passenger trains accounted for 80% of railway useBrussels,Belgium -Eurostat Press Office -May 2007: -- Study: Rail passenger and goods transport: These figures are published in two reports from Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, on rail passenger and freight transport in the EU in 2005... Rail passenger transport in the EU25 rose from 350 billion passenger-kilometres in 2004 to 357 billion in 2005, an increase of 2.2%. The Member States who showed the highest growth in rail passenger transport between 2004 and 2005 were Estonia (+28%), Ireland (+13%), Greece and Latvia (both +10%), while the largest decreases were observed in Lithuania and Hungary (both -9%). In 2005, France (76 billion passenger-kilometres, +3% between 2004 and 2005), Germany (75 bn, +3%), Italy (46 bn, +1%) and the United Kingdom (44 bn, +3%) accounted for almost 70% of the EU25 volume of rail passenger transport... Rail freight transport in the EU25 was almost stable between 2004 and 2005 at 392 billion tonne-kilometres1. The highest increases were found in Lithuania (+7%), Latvia and Portugal (both +6%), and the largest decreases in Luxembourg (-34%), Ireland (-24%) and Denmark (-15%). Germany (95 billion tonne-kilometres, +4% between 2004 and 2005), Poland (50 bn, -5%), France (41 bn, -10%), Italy (23 bn, +3%) and the United Kingdom (22 bn, -1%) accounted for almost 60% of the EU25 volume of freight transport by rail...
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