Statistics

Planning, decision-making, advocacy and research in the field of public transport and urban mobility require reliable and comparable data.
UITP has developed a range of products to provide its members with quantitative and qualitative information on key aspects of public transport and urban mobility.

By strengthening its position as a reference point for data on public transport and urban mobility, UITP seeks to better serve its members and to reduce the numerous requests for data they receive from different parties.

Public transport statistics

UITP launched a new product in May 2007, the ‘Public Transport Statistics Report’.  Each issue will provide fresh in-depth data on a specific topic of strategic importance for the sector.

Issue 1-  ‘Latest figures on the urban bus fleet in the European Union’.

This survey provides data on the use of fuel and drive train technologies, accessibility features, age and structure of the bus and trolleybus fleet operated within EU cities of over 100.000 inhabitants, with reference to the year 2005. The survey also contains information on procurement mechanisms and fleet management.

Detailed data are available to UITP members in the ‘Members only’ section. Non-members can purchase a CD-ROM here.”

Urban mobility analysis

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Deciphering urban mobility - UITP Members: join this new UITP initiative!

This new initiative aims at sharing the experience acquired through the Mobility in Cities Database with a “club” of interested UITP members by enabling them to set up a transport account for their urban agglomeration on the basis of a common methodology.

The transport account is an essential tool to measure the economic, social and environmental costs and performance of the transport system as a whole (public transport and individual transport). It allows costs and performance comparisons with other cities as well as the follow-up of the evolution year after year.

If you want to express your interest and receive further information, please contact Jérôme Pourbaix, jerome.pourbaix@uitp.org

UITP developed effective policy messages and recommendations in favour of public transport based on two extensive projects of collection and analysis of urban mobility data, known as the Millennium Cities Database (data for year 1995) and Mobility in Cities Database (data for year 2001). Providing 120 indicators, those studies make informed comparisons between cities possible. The Mobility in Cities Database contains information on urban transport policies implemented at urban level which enables to understand differences of performance between cities.

Other publications on statistics are available in our Publications section/store.