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Umwelt-Indikator

Indicator: Environmentally friendly passenger transport

A graph shows the share of pedestrian, utility cycling, railway and passenger transport services in the overall passenger transport volume. Shown here are the years between 2003 and 2022. There has been changes in method in this period in 2003 and 2007.

The share of environmentally friendly passenger transport has remained more or less constant since 2003, only slightly increasing until 2019 and reaching 20.6 %. In 2020 and 2021, it fell to around 18 % due to the pandemic and was back at 20.3 % in 2022.To keep the environmental impact of passenger transport low, the share of environmentally friendly transport in total passenger transport should b... read more

Indicator: Environmentally friendly freight transport

A graph shows the shares of rail and inland shipping in freight transport volume between 1999 and 2023. The share of rail transport first increased and then began to stagnate, while the share of inland shipping declined.

The rail share in freight transport fluctuated between 19 % and 21,5 % over the past years.The share of inland waterways transport fell almost continuously from 13.5 % to 6.4 % since 1999. read more

The Umweltbundesamt

For our environment

The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.

The UBA

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