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Commuter traffic jams in Berlin, tram tracks: Better to get to work in your own car
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The year 2020 did not help the mobility transition, at least when it comes to getting to work.
In the meantime, video conferences and home offices relieved the previously often overloaded commuter routes during the corona crisis - because more people were doing their professional tasks at home.
But those who still had to drive to work often used the car - and even over short distances.
This is shown by figures from the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden.
Last year, 40 percent of commuters stated that they normally drive a car for distances of less than five kilometers - the value has not changed compared to 2016.
For distances between five and ten kilometers, the proportion was even significantly higher at 69 percent.
26 percent of commuters used their bicycles on journeys less than five kilometers to work - that is three percentage points more than in 2016. Only eleven percent cycled distances between five and ten kilometers.
Only eight percent of commuters traveled by bus, train or tram on distances of less than five kilometers.
On journeys between five and ten kilometers to work, it was 18 percent.
The number of cars per household is increasing
Almost half of all commuters say they have to travel less than ten kilometers to their place of work.
For 27 percent, the workplace is even less than five kilometers away.
In many cases, however, there is still commuting in Germany (a detailed analysis can be found here).
Around 13 million people travel between different counties for work.
Around 3.4 million live and work in different federal states.
The data now presented on the use of the various modes of transport come from the so-called microcensus 2020. This is the largest annual household survey of official statistics in Germany.
Around one percent of the population in Germany is asked about working and living conditions.
The Federal Statistical Office had already published the results of a targeted commuter survey in September, which takes place every four years.
According to the statisticians, they, too, documented an "unbroken dominance of the car" as a means of transport: The car is by far the most popular means of transport on the way to work - and the proportion is growing.
It also showed that the number of cars per household has risen noticeably within a decade.
According to this, there were 102 cars for every 100 households in 2010, ten years later there were 108.
chs / dpa