The table illustrates how many kilometres an adult in a European city travelled by 7 means of transport including walking, bicycle, car, motorcycle, bus, train, and taxi from 1977 to 2007. Overall, there were upward trends in the figure for car, train, and taxi, whereas the opposite patterns were true for the remainders. Additionally, car was always the most prioritized vehicle and bicycle was the least favoured.
In the starting year, the average number of kilometres travelled using car was the highest at 3500, which was nealy fourfold that using train at 900 and almost 18 times higher than that using taxi at merely 200 kilometers. Over 30 years, the figure for car doubled to 7100 while the average kilometers of taxi witnessed a fourfold increase to 800. There was a slight rise of 100 in the travel using train to 1000 at the end of the period.
Regarding the remaining transports, there were decreases of 100 in the average number of kilometres travelled by walking or mortorbike, from 400 to 300 and from 100 to 90, between 1977 and 2007. In 2007, the figure for bus was 800, which was 8 times higher than that for bicycle. During this survey, there was an fall of 300 in the number of train travel to 500 in 2005; likewise, the data for bicycle went down by 200 to 80, narrowing the gap between bicycle and train.