Analysing demography and mobility issues in METPEX: Travel time and distance in different age groups

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 […]




Modal split in Swiss municipality types

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. […]