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Analysing the connection between demographic and mobility issues for the METPEX project, INE has studied, among other aspects, the access to car, bicycle and public transport card of different age groups in Switzerland. As the figure below reveals, car and bicycle ownership decrease while age increases, though the difference by age group is more remarkable […]
INE participates in the METRIC Project and as a part of this project it has examined the innovation potential of the European regions in terms of transportation industry. Data from the Eurostat were used.This map shows the result of the section “High educated persons employed”, which is a basic part of innovation. It is about […]
The Institute for Sustainable Development (INE) participates in the EU-project METPEX that aims to develope a tool to measure passenger satisfaction. Passenger satisfaction may depend on accessibility issues. Therefore, one of the work packages (WP6), leaded by INE, has as a goal to find the association of socio-economic factors and land use with accessibility. The […]
The midterm METPEX Meeting took place from 31st March to 2nd April 2014 in Valencia. The 15 project partners discussed about the progress of the running work packages (WP) and INE, as WP6-leader, coordinated the discussions regarding the factors associated with accessibility that are relevant for the quality of passenger experience.The first task of the […]
In the framework of the METRIC project, the Institute of Sustainable Development (INE) analyses the levels of vehicle ownership in Europe. The map below shows the number of motorcycles per 1000 inhabitants in European NUTS2 (administrative divisions equivalent to regions/federal states). The stronger the red, the greater is the stock of motorcycles per 1000 inhabitants. […]