STATISTICS IN FOCUS. Transport infrastructure and road safety: stark contrasts between Member States of the European Union

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* + * Ξi/L eurostat 1997 D 2 STATISTICS IN FOCUS Regions ISSN 124 6886 Transport infrastructure and safety: stark contrasts between Member States of the European Union The observations below refer to

1 * + * Ξi/L eurostat 1997 D 2 STATISTICS IN FOCUS Regions ISSN Transport infrastructure and safety: stark contrasts between Member States of the European Union The observations below refer to 1994 (unless otherwise stated in the tables). The figures include only those NUTS 2 regions of the Community for which data are available. Since changes from one year to the next are minimal, the total figures for EUR 15 are based on the results for the latest year available for each Member State. The territorial distributions of both and rail infrastructure reveal wide disparities between regions of the European Union. Road safety statistics also show appreciable differences. Road infrastructure: France has the longest network; Belgium has the densest Road networks are of vital importance, since they represent the main mode of both passenger and freight transport within the European Union. France has the biggest network in terms of kilometres. It is followed by Germany, which also has the most extensive motorway network. In terms of density (length divided by area), Belgium's network is top of the list with 4.67 km of per square kilometre (Figure 1). Apart from urban regions such as Brussels, Greater London and Vienna, the densest networks are to be found in the West Midlands county (7.66 km/km 2 ) and Merseyside (6.54), followed by Brabant Wallon (Β) and Vlaams Brabant (Β) at 6.51 et 5.59 respectively. At the opposite extreme are regions in the far north of Sweden and Finland, followed by Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki (EL), Aragon (ES) and Extremadura (ES). Rhône Alpes (FR) has the longest motorway network (1 76 km), followed by Piemonte (I, 749 km) and Provence Alpes Côtes d'azur (F, 74 km). At Member State level, the densest infrastructure (Belgium) is 19 time greater than the least dense (Sweden). Leaving aside regions in the far north, where climatic conditions are extreme and populations sparse, the contrast between regions is even greater, with the greatest density 38 times greater than the lowest density (Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki EL at,2, West Midlands county UK at 7.66). Figure 1 Road network density (km/km 2 ) L 'm NL AT PT SF SE UK Manuscript completed on = For further information please contact: N.Mavraganis Eurostat, L 292 Luxembourg, tel Fax: Price (excl. VAT) in Luxembourg: Subscription 'Statistics in focus' of all themes: ECU 31 Single copy: ECU 6 Catalogue number: CA NI 97 2 EN C

2 Rail network: Saarland and Saxony in the lead The European Union hasa rail network with a total length of almost 159 km - an average of.5 km of rail track per square kilometre. The highest network density (cf. Figure 2) is in Germany (.12 km per km 2 ), followed by Belgium and Luxembourg (both at.11). The lowest densities are in Greece, Spain and Finland (all three at.2). At regional level, apart from urban regions, Saarland, Saxony and Nordrhein-Westfalen have the densest rail networks (at.22,.17 and.16 km of rail per km 2 respectively). The worst-served region (except for those in the extreme north) is Ditiki Makedonia (EL) at.1 km per km 2. Eight of the 15 NUTS 2 regions in Spain with a rail network are amongst those with the lowest densities, at.2. With notable exceptions such as the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily, most island regions have no rail network at all. Road safety: users are safest in the United Kingdom The number of deaths due to accidents is an indicator which reveals much about the quality of a network. Comparisons between Member States and regions have to be based on numbers of deaths per head of population - usually per million inhabitants. At European Union level, almost 45 deaths, or 12 per million inhabitants, were caused by accidents in The United Kingdom has the lowest rate of deaths (66), followed by Sweden (67), the Netherlands (85), Finland (95) and Denmark (15) (Figure 3). The most dangerous networks are to be found in Portugal and the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, with 199 and 19 deaths per million inhabitants each year. Where regions are concerned, the safest are urban regions such as Stockholm, Hamburg and Brussels, with 3,32 and 4 deaths respectively per million inhabitants. The Belgian province of Luxembourg saw the greatest carnage in 1994 (37 deaths per million), followed by Brandenburg (D, 316), Namur (B, 299), Mecklenburg- Vorpommern (D, 29) and Corsica (F, 244) - all figures well above the Community average. Figure 2 Rail network density (km/km 2 ) Figure 3 Number of deaths caused by accidents per million inhabitants L NL AT PT SF SE UK

3 Table 1 Transport infrastructure and safety l=m eurostat Road total: (ï) motorway (2) INFRASTRUCTURE Network length, im km (1994) Rail: total of which : double track or more electrified lines NETWORK DENSITY km/km^ km/km 2 ROAD SAFETY, 1994 number of deaths caused by accidents'" / mio nhab EUR BELGIQUE BELGIE BRABANT (94) REG. BRUXELLES CAP./BRUS VLAAMS GEWEST Antwerpen Limburg (Β) Oost-Vlaanderen Vlaams Brabant West-Vlaanderen REGION WALLONNE Brabant Wallon Haìnaut Liege Luxembourg (Β) Namur ? DANMARK DEUTSCHLAND BADEN WÜRTTEMBERG Stuttgart Karlsruhe Freiburg Tübingen BAYERN Oberbayem Niederbayern Oberpfalz Oberfranken Mittelfranken Unterfranken Schwaben BERLIN BRANDENBURG BREMEN HAMBURG HESSEN Darmstadt Gießen Kassel MECKLENBURG VORPOMMERN NIEDERSACHSEN Braunschweig Hannover Lüneburg Weser-Ems NORDRHEIN WESTFALEN Düsseldorf Köln Münster Detmold Arnsberg RHEINLAND PFALZ Koblenz Trier Rheinhessen-Pfalz SAARLAND SACHSEN SACHSEN ANHALT Dessau Halle Magdeburg SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN THÜRINGEN á 19S 44E E 95C E S.1: Rfi

4 Table 1 Transport infrastructure and safety = r eurostat RoarJ total: 11) motorway (2) INFRASTRUCTURE NetworK ie Rail: total double track or more electrified lines NETWORK DENSITY km/km 2 km/km! ROAD SAFETY, 1994 number of deaths caused by accidents''" / mio nhab. ELLADA VOREIA ELLADA Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki Kentriki Makedonia Dytiki Makedonia Thessaiia KENTRIKI ELLADA Ipeiros Ionia Nisiä Dytiki E/lada Sterea Ellada Peloponnisos ATTIKI NISIÄ AIGAIOU, KRITI Voreio Aigaio Notio Aigaio Kriti E c S C C.3E : : ESPANA NOROESTE Galicia Asturias Cantabria NORESTE Pais Vasco Navarra Rioja Aragon MADRID CENTRO (E) Castilla - Leon Castilla - La Mancha Extremadura ESTE Cataluña Comunidad Valenciana Baleares SUR Andalucía Murcia Ceuta y Melitta CANARIAS E C E 6C E FRANCE ILEDE FRANCE BASSIN PARISIEN Champagne-Ardenne Picardie Haute-Normandie Centre Basse-Normandie Bourgogne NORD - PAS-DE-CALAIS EST Lorraine Alsace Franche-Comté OUEST Pays de la Loire Bretagne Poitou-Cha ren te s SUD-OUEST Aquitaine Midi-Pyrénées Limousin CENTRE-EST Rhône-Alpes Auverg ooo

5 Table 1 Transport infrastructure and safety INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK DENSITY ROAD SAFETY, 1994 \4/Λ eurostat Road total: (D motorway (2) Rail: total double track or more electrified lines km/km' km/km' number of deaths caused by accldents IJ) /mio inhab. MEDITERRANEE Languedoc-Roussillon Provence-Alpes-Côte d'azur Corse DÉPARTEMENTS D'OUTRE MER Guadeloupe Martinique Guyane Réunion ITALIA NORD OVEST Piemonte Valle d'aosta Liguria LOMBARDIA NORD EST Trentino-Alto Adige Veneto Friuli-Venezia Giulia EMILIA ROMAGNA CENTRO (I) Toscana Umbria Marche LAZIO ABRUZZO MOLISE Abruzzo Molise CAMPANIA SUD Puglia Basilicata Calabria SICILIA SARDEGNA «3 51, 18 LUXEMBOURG (GRAND DUCHE) NEDERLAND NOORD NEDERLAND Groningen Friesland Drenthe OOST NEDERLAND Overijssel Gelderland Flevoland WEST NEDERLAND Utrecht Noord-Holland Zuid-Holland Zeeland ZUID NEDERLAND Noord-Brabant Limburg (NL) ιοi ÖSTERREICH OSTÖSTERREICH Burgenland Niederösterreich Wien SÜDÖSTERREICH Kärnten Steiermark

6 Table 1 Transport infrastructure and safety Id/H I / I eurostat Road total: <D motorway (2) INFRASTRUCTURE Network length, im km (1994) Rail: total of which double track or more electrified lines NETWORK DENSITY km/km! km/km 2 ROAD SAFETY, 1994 number of deaths caused by accidents' 3 ' / mio inhab. WESTÖSTERREICH Oberösterreich Salzburg Tirol Vorarlberg PORTUGAL CONTINENTE Norte Centro (Ρ) Lisboa e Vale do Tejo Alentejo Algarve ACORES MADEIRA SUOMI/FINLAND MANNER SUOMI Uusimaa Etelä-Suomi Itã-Suomi Väli-Suomi Pohjois-Suomi AHVENANMAA/ALAND SVERIGE Stockholm Oestra Mellansverige Smaaland Med Oearna Sydsverige Vaestsverige Norra Mellansverige Mellersta Norrland Oevre Norrland A UNITED KINGDOM NORTH Cleveland. Durham Cumbria Northumberland, Tyne and Wear YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE Humberside North Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire EAST MIDLANDS Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire Leles., Northamptonshire Lincolnshire EAST ANGLIA SOUTH EAST (UK) Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire Berks., Bucks.. Oxfordshire Surrey, East-West Sussex Essex Greater London Hampshire, Isle of Wight Kent SOUTH WEST (UK) Avon, Gloucs., Wiltshire Cornwall, Devon Dorset, Somerset WEST MIDLANDS Hereford-Worcs., Warwicks. Shropshire. Staffordshire West midlands (County) C C 72.E 26.C 16.C 1.E Í C 22.E Í 243.E / 1 58." ' 125.Í 166.: 295.; 24.; 1 37.! 53.' Í ) : ) E E : 51 : : 78 : 45 : 91 : 72 : 95 : 13 : 45

7 Table 1 Transport infrastructure and safety l=l/h eurostat Road total: motorway INFRASTRUCTURE Network length, m km (1994) Rail: total double track electrified NETWORK DENSITY km/km! km/km 2 ROAD SAFETY, 1994 number of deaths caused (1) (2) or more nes by accidents 131 / mio inhab. NORTH WEST (UK) Cheshire Greater Manchester Lancashire Merseyside WALES Clwyd, Dyfed, Gwynedd, Powys Gwent, Mid-S-W Glamorgan SCOTLAND Bord. -Centr. -Fife-Loth. - Tay. Dumfr. - Galloway, Strathclyde Highlands, Islands Grampian NORTHERN IRELAND 'B, P, SF:93 1 B: 93, E: 92 1 EL: 93

Density of the railway network, 1994 NUTS 2 MADEIRA Ρ 5 1 Á km of railway per km 2 EUR 15 =.5 >.2 D: NUTS 1.7.2.3.7 <=.

9 Density of the railway network, 1994 NUTS 2 MADEIRA Ρ 5 1 Á km of railway per km 2 EUR 15 =.5 >.2 D: NUTS <=.3 Data not available >^ * GUADELOUPE O Statistical data: REGIO database Cartography and geographic information management: GISCO 4/97 Ι ι h <

12 Methodological notes and sources Motorway: a specifically designed and constructed for motor traffic. It does not serve residential properties. All motorways have dual (separate) carriageways in the two directions of traffic flow (except in the event of works using contraflow systems). A motorway has no level Intersections with s, railways or other thoroughfares. It is always identified as a motorway by signs and is restricted to certain categories of motorised vehicle. Rail: railway track in current use by normal public rail traffic. Deaths caused by accidents: these cover all categories of victim (pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, car drivers and passengers etc.) NUTS: Nomenclature of Territorial Statistical Units. The nomenclature in current use subdivides the territory of the EU into 77 regions at NUTS Level 1, 26 at NUTS Level 2 and 131 at NUTS Level 3, each NUTS level being a grouping of regions at the level below. " : "= data not available. Publications : - Regions: statistical yearbook; - Transport: annual statistics Source: REGIO REGIO : apart from the indicators presented here, the REGIO databank contains other series of regional indicators on regional transport (passenger and goods flows by mode of transport etc.), plus other statistical domains (demography, agriculture, employment, unemployment, economic accounts, energy, research and development, etc.). Further information is available from: Nicolas Mavraganis Eurostat, Directorate E, Unit E4 - Regional accounts and indicators, population and geographical information system J MO C3/74 Tel.: 352/ Fax: 352/ Nicolas.Mavraganis@eurostat.cec.be

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