In 2022, transport by car accounted for 72.2% of total passenger-kilometres across the EU, a decrease of 8.1 percentage points (pp) compared with 2021. Transport by planes made up 13.1% of total passenger kilometres, a notable increase of 6 pp compared with 2021. Coaches, buses, or trolleybuses followed at 7.4% (up 0.5 pp), trains at 7.0% (up 1.6 pp), and boats at 0.3% (stable compared with 2021).
Even though transport by car dominated throughout the EU, its highest share was registered in Lithuania (87.9%), followed by Finland (78.6%) and the Netherlands (77.9%).
In terms of air transport, Croatia registered the highest share of air passenger-kilometres in the total performance across all means of transport (40.4%), followed by Bulgaria (25.9%) and Cyprus (23.2%).
Malta had the highest share of transport by coaches, buses, and trolleybuses (15.4%), with Ireland (14.1%) and Hungary (13.0%) trailing behind.
Austria ranked highest in rail transport, with 11.0% of rail passenger-kilometres in the total transport performance by all means of transport, followed by the Netherlands (10.6%) and Sweden (9.5%).
In sea transport the igures were dominated by countries with lots of islands: Croatia registered the largest share of passenger-kilometres by sea vessels (2.5%), closely followed by Estonia (2.3%) and Finland (2.2%).
For Latvia the split was 74.8% for cars, 11.4% aircrat, 10.3% buses, coaches an trolleybuses, 3.2% trains and 0.2% seagoing boats.
