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The Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS) classifies the municipalities in nine types: centres, suburban, high-income, peri-urban, touristic, industrial, rural, agrarian mix and agrarian municipalities according to employment, population density, income, tourism, population structure and centrality criteria. In the framework of the METPEX project the connection between such land use types and mobility patterns are analyzed. […]
INE is a partner in the EU-Project METPEX, which started in November 2012 and lasts three years. The project is conducted in cooperation with 16 institutions, organisations and companies from 11 European countries. The main goal of the METPEX project is to develop a measurement tool to determine the quality of a door-to-door passenger experience. […]
The diagram below shows the relationship between population density and car ownership in the municipalities of the canton Aargau in 2010. There is a negative correlation between both factors, what means that higher population density leads to lower car ownership and vice versa. A likely explanation for this result is that high densely populated areas […]
The car ownership rate was increasing in most of the Swiss municipalities during 2000-2010 (BFS 2000 & 2010). When looking at the cantons of Zurich and Aargau, some regional differencies can be seen in the development. The level of motorisation increased in the majority of municipalities in canton Aargau, whereas the agglomerations around Zurich had […]