The main bottlenecks in the rail freight market

The unexpected stable market share of the bicycle in The Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the share of the bicycle as the main mode in all person trips has been highly constant in the past three decades (about 27%). A constant share is remarkable because a number of developments in this period were unfavourable for bicycle use, like ageing of the population, growing number of immigrants, increasing car ownership,...

Development of cycling and influential demand factors in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the share of the bicycle as the main mode in all person trips has been highly constant in the past three decades (about 27%). A constant share is remarkable because developments in this period were mainly unfavourable for bicycle use, like ageing of the population, growing number of immigrants, increasing car ownership, and a...

Travelling to school in the Netherlands and in Flanders

School travel is highly neglected in transport science. It contributes little to today’s most envisaged transport problems but it generates its own problems. The paper presents results of a study on travel behaviour of pupils travelling to primary and secondary schools. The study focuses on two aspects: the distances between home and school and...