00:00Which European countries travel the most by train?
00:07Imagine this.
00:08Take every train journey made by EU citizens in a single year
00:12and add them all together, station after station,
00:15the total reaches 443 billion kilometers.
00:18If you were to cover that distance in space,
00:21you could take 500 round trips between Earth and Jupiter.
00:25Back to reality, it means that the average EU citizen
00:28travels around 1,000 kilometers per year.
00:31That's about equal to citizens of the UK,
00:34with the only difference that rail traffic there
00:36is mostly concentrated in London and the Southeast.
00:40In the EU, 95% of that traffic takes place on domestic railways.
00:46The beating heart of Europe's rail network lies on a central-western axis.
00:50Passengers in Austria, France and Hungary travel the longest distances domestically,
00:55averaging between 1,400 and 1,500 kilometers a year.
01:00A stark contrast compared to Greece,
01:03where citizens rack up only about 70 kilometers each per year.
01:07And this isn't so surprising when you consider that Greece,
01:11together with Finland,
01:12has the lowest railway density in the EU,
01:15below 20 kilometers per 1,000 square kilometers.
01:18At the same time, density is highest in the Czech Republic,
01:22Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg,
01:24all with more than 100 kilometers of lines per 1,000 square kilometers.
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