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Road, rail, air and water transportation are all prevalent and important across Europe. Europe was the location of the world's first railways and motorways and is now the location of some of the world's busiest ports and airports. The Schengen Area enables border control-free travel between 26 European countries.
The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population), and lowest in the European Region (9.3 per 100 000). [ 3 ] Adults aged between 15 and 44 years account for 59 percent of global road traffic deaths. 77 percent of road deaths are males.
In May 2022, some countries in the European Union strongly reduced the price for traveling on public transport, among others, because this is a relatively climate-friendly mode of transportation: Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy. During summer of 2022, Germany reduced the price to Є9 per month. In some cities the price was cut by more than 90%.
Tonne-km of selected carriers in the European Union, 2003. Countries with more than one billion tonne-kilometres (tkm) travelled per year. Unless otherwise specified, data come from the Railway Statistics 2014 Report by the International Union of Railways.
Microstates such as San Marino, Andorra and Liechtenstein have high rates of car ownership.. Countries and territories listed by the number of road motor vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants are as follows.
Project EDWARD is the biggest Europe-wide awareness and enforcement campaign on road safety. [56] The goal of the project European Day Without A Road Death (Project EDWARD) is that nobody dies on the roads of Europe on Wednesday 19 September 2018. [57] In 2018, project EDWARD reached a score of 37.2 million on the Twitter social media. [56]
The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) is a non-profit organisation that works to reduce the number of deaths and injuries in traffic collisions that occur in Europe. [1] It publishes an annual Road Safety Performance Index Report , measuring progress in reducing road deaths in Europe.
Temporary lines laid for a specific purposes are not considered unless specified. Countries include the nations listed in the List of sovereign states along with reference ISO 3166 codes which list ISO 3166-1 numeric three-digit country codes which are maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.