Germany Road Stats
Definitions
- Cars > Hybrid vehicles: Number of hybrid electric vehicles registered per year.
- Cars > Hybrid vehicles per million people: Number of hybrid electric vehicles registered per year. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
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Expressway length:
Expressway length (km).
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
- Length of motorways per capita: Kilometers of motorways per million residents.
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Motor vehicles per 1000 people:
Motor vehicles per 1000 people.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
- Motorway density: Meters of motorway per square kilometer.
- Motorway length: Total network length of all motorways in km.
- Motorway length per capita: Length of motorways per capita (mm).
- Public road per capita: Length of public roads per capita (m).
- Road density: Road density (m of road per square km).
- Road fatalities per 1 billion km driven: Compares countries measuring the number of people killed in a year per billion of vehicles circulating through a kilometer of road, including all types of roads. The figures correspond to the year 2010, and were taken from the International Road Traffic and Accident Database (IRTAD). This database is kept by the OECD.
- Traffic laws > Permitted alcohol level: Indicates for European countries the limit of blood alcohol content (in %), above which driving is not permitted.
- Traffic laws > Seatbelt required: Indicates for European countries whether (and on which seats) it is mandatory to wear seatbelts while driving.
- Traffic laws > Tow rope required: Indicates for European countries whether the law requires a tow rope to be available in each car.
- Traffic laws > Triangle required: Indicates for European countries whether the law requires a triangular safety reflector to be available in each car.
SOURCES: Wikipedia: Hybrid electric vehicle (Top national markets for hybrid electric vehicles between 2007 and); Wikipedia: Hybrid electric vehicle (Top national markets for hybrid electric vehicles between 2007 and). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: List of countries by road network size; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2085.html, Roadways.; Wikipedia: List of countries by vehicles per capita; Wikipedia: List of OECD countries by road network size (Motorway network) ("Selected year 2006 road traffic data" . OECD International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group (IRTAD).); Wikipedia: Autobahn (Safety: international comparison) (http://www.bast.de (December 2012). "International Traffic and Accident Data: Selected Risk Values for the Year 2010" (PDF). Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (Federal Highway Research Institute) . Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen . Retrieved 2013-09-10. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2011/2_intro.cfm); Wikipedia: Comparison of European traffic laws (General)
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Did you know
- In Germany and Italy, every second person owns a car.
- Germany's railway network could stretch all the way around the Earth.
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