00:00As the EU moves to simplify cross-border rail travel, which country's passengers travel the most?
00:10In 2024, people in the EU took 8.7 billion rail trips, amounting to a total of 444.5 billion
00:19passenger kilometers, marking the highest level in years, according to the latest Eurostat figures.
00:24Germany and France were the largest overall contributors to rail passenger transport performance
00:30with 109.1 and 107.3 billion passenger kilometers, respectively.
00:37They were followed by Italy with 55.9 billion passenger kilometers.
00:41In contrast, six EU countries recorded fewer than 1 billion passenger kilometers in 2024,
00:47with Lithuania and Estonia having the lowest numbers, each at 0.4 billion passenger kilometers.
00:54National train travel within a country dominated in all member states,
00:58accounting for more than 90% of the total rail passenger transport across 25 EU countries in 2024.
01:05The only exceptions were Luxembourg and Czechia, whose national transport represented 63.5% and 82.1% respectively.
01:15The stats come as the European Commission proposes a plan to simplify cross-border rail travel around the bloc.
01:21The newly announced passenger package will allow travelers to make single-ticket bookings
01:26across multiple rail operators in one transaction.
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