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European Mobility Week: 7 interesting facts about transport in Slovenia
Losing your temper over heavy traffic? Perhaps you are stuck behind one of the 1,412,316 road vehicles registered in Slovenia. This year the European Mobility Week encourages us to think about all transport possibilities that are available to us.
Since 2002 the European Mobility Week (EMW) in the week from 16 to 22 September has drawn attention to the need to change our travel habits and encouraged efforts to environmentally and human friendly modes of mobility. CHOOSE. CHANGE. COMBINE. This is the slogan of this year's EMW, which seeks to encourage us to think about multimodality, i.e. about all transport possibilities that are available to us. This year we are particularly encouraged to combine different means of transport.

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The number of registered passenger cars up by more than 350 times in the last 60 years
In 2014, Slovenia had 1,068,362 registered passenger cars. This means that on average one in two persons in Slovenia owned a car. In 1954, there were 2,898 registered passenger cars, in 1959 more than 10,000, in 1969 more than 100,000, and in 2007 more than one million.
133 electrical cars among the registered passenger cars
99.2% of passenger cars registered in Slovenia in 2014 used petrol and diesel, while cleaner forms of fuel, such as electricity, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas and other, were used only by 0.8% of registered passenger cars; 133 of them were electric.
The average age of passenger cars has increased by two years since 2004
The age of cars in Slovenia is gradually increasing. In 2002, cars were on average a little over 7 years old, in 2009 on average 8 years old, in 2013 a little over 9 years old and in 2014 on average 9.4 years old.
6% of households can not afford a car
Data for 2013 reveal that in Slovenia 82% of households owned a car, 6% could not afford it and 12% did not need it. In 2014, households spent 16% of their total expenditure on transport, most of this (12% of total expenditure) for operation of personal transport equipment: spare parts and accessories, fuels and lubricants, maintenance and repair, and other services.
In 2013, 34,481 people involved in road traffic accidents – the fewest in the last 10 years
In Slovenia, there were 18,904 traffic accidents in 2013 in which 34,481 people were involved; 0.4% of them died. The most vulnerable participants in traffic accidents were pedestrians and motorcyclists; in each of these two groups 3% of the participants died.
Almost 90 million passengers carried by public road and rail transport in 2014
The number of passengers in public road transport in Slovenia in the 2004-2014 period decreased by a half, while the number of rail passengers did not change significantly.
Ljubljana is one of the 20 bicycle-friendliest cities
With its 133 km of bike lanes and 73 km of cycle tracks Ljubljana was included among the twenty bicycle-friendliest cities in 2015.
Vir: The 2015 Copenhagenize Index
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The number of registered passenger cars up by more than 350 times in the last 60 years
In 2014, Slovenia had 1,068,362 registered passenger cars. This means that on average one in two persons in Slovenia owned a car. In 1954, there were 2,898 registered passenger cars, in 1959 more than 10,000, in 1969 more than 100,000, and in 2007 more than one million.
133 electrical cars among the registered passenger cars
99.2% of passenger cars registered in Slovenia in 2014 used petrol and diesel, while cleaner forms of fuel, such as electricity, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas and other, were used only by 0.8% of registered passenger cars; 133 of them were electric.
The average age of passenger cars has increased by two years since 2004
The age of cars in Slovenia is gradually increasing. In 2002, cars were on average a little over 7 years old, in 2009 on average 8 years old, in 2013 a little over 9 years old and in 2014 on average 9.4 years old.
6% of households can not afford a car
Data for 2013 reveal that in Slovenia 82% of households owned a car, 6% could not afford it and 12% did not need it. In 2014, households spent 16% of their total expenditure on transport, most of this (12% of total expenditure) for operation of personal transport equipment: spare parts and accessories, fuels and lubricants, maintenance and repair, and other services.
In 2013, 34,481 people involved in road traffic accidents – the fewest in the last 10 years
In Slovenia, there were 18,904 traffic accidents in 2013 in which 34,481 people were involved; 0.4% of them died. The most vulnerable participants in traffic accidents were pedestrians and motorcyclists; in each of these two groups 3% of the participants died.
Almost 90 million passengers carried by public road and rail transport in 2014
The number of passengers in public road transport in Slovenia in the 2004-2014 period decreased by a half, while the number of rail passengers did not change significantly.
Ljubljana is one of the 20 bicycle-friendliest cities
With its 133 km of bike lanes and 73 km of cycle tracks Ljubljana was included among the twenty bicycle-friendliest cities in 2015.
1 Copenhagen | 11 Barcelona |
2 Amsterdam | 12 Berlin |
3 Utrecht | 13 Ljubljana |
4 Strasbourg | 14 Buenos Aires |
5 Eindhoven | 15 Dublin |
6 Malmo | 16 Vienna |
7 Nantes | 17 Paris |
8 Bordeaux | 18 Minneapolis |
9 Antwerp | 19 Hamburg |
10 Seville | 20 Montreal |
Vir: The 2015 Copenhagenize Index
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