☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoEast Asia has lowest car utilization, highest public transportation utilization. North America has highest car utilization and lowest public transportation utilization.www.visualcapitalist.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down14
arrow-up197arrow-down1external-linkEast Asia has lowest car utilization, highest public transportation utilization. North America has highest car utilization and lowest public transportation utilization.www.visualcapitalist.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareGranixolinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·7 months agoAs a South American, i’d say those numbers are slightly wrong. There are pretty much the same amount of people in cars as in public transportation.
minus-squarevividspecter@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 months agoIt looks like the data is taken from cities alone, which could skew the numbers a little, depending on how much of the population lives outside cities (and how they define what a city is). Here’s the study itself for people that are interested: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoScientific research always loses to anecdotal evidence about an entire continent. \s
As a South American, i’d say those numbers are slightly wrong.
There are pretty much the same amount of people in cars as in public transportation.
It looks like the data is taken from cities alone, which could skew the numbers a little, depending on how much of the population lives outside cities (and how they define what a city is).
Here’s the study itself for people that are interested: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272
Scientific research always loses to anecdotal evidence about an entire continent. \s