In July, more people drove to rural regions in Germany. This is partly due to the 9-euro ticket, as figures from the Federal Statistical Office show.
The 9-euro ticket lured people onto the train, but apparently did not lead to less travel on the road. This emerges from a special evaluation published on Thursday by the Federal Statistical Office. According to this, the number of rail journeys of more than 30 kilometers was also well above the level of the pre-crisis month of 2019 in the second month after the introduction of the cheap ticket. On average, there were again 42 percent more journeys by train in July. Nationwide, road trips remained at about the same level as in the comparable period before the Corona crisis.
“These nationwide results indicate a general increase in travel,” the agency said. An increase in rail traffic was recorded, particularly in rural tourism regions. Here, trips by train in June and July were on average 80 percent higher than in the comparable months of 2019.
According to the information, road traffic still accounts for the largest share of passenger transport. A regional shift from road to rail traffic cannot be derived from the results, the authority explained. The trips registered on the road include both car and bus trips.
The Federal Statistical Office evaluated anonymous and aggregated mobile phone data from the network of the mobile phone provider Telefónica. According to the information, an assignment to different types of traffic is only possible for travel distances of 30 kilometers or more.
Source: Stern
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