Sustainable Mobility

Successes of Freiburg‘s Transport Policy

Between 1982 and 1999 the percentage of bikes in the total volume of inner-city traffic rose from 15% to 27% and public transport rose from 11% to 18%, while the percentage of trips made by car fell from 38% to 32%. Compared with other major German cities, Freiburg has an extremely low density of cars, with only 428 vehicles per 1,000 residents.