Did you know that in 2024, EU households spent on average 12.7% of their budget on transport? Or that 6.3 million people worked in the EU’s transport sector, equivalent to 3.1% of all employment? Could you name the EU’s largest cargo ports and airports? Are you interested in transport safety or environmental impacts of transport?
The 2025 edition of Key figures on European transport brings together all the key data on the transport of people and goods while also showing the broader context, including infrastructure, economic impact, energy use and environmental effects.
This publication is organised into 5 chapters that combine text with colourful visualisations. The first 2 chapters focus on passenger and freight transport, exploring the movement of people and goods by land, sea and air. Chapter 3 looks into transport safety, providing data on accidents and fatalities. The fourth chapter explores the environmental and energy implications of transport. The final chapter examines the economic aspects, including employment, prices, expenditure and investment.