Modal share, Mode split or Modal split, is a traffic / transport term that describes the number of trips or (more common) percentage of travelers using a particular type of transportation.[1]
The term is often used when analysing the sustainability of transport within a city or region. In recent years, many cities have set modal share targets for balanced and sustainable transport modes, particularly 30% of non-motorized (cycling and walking) and 30% of public transport.
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The following table presents the modal split of journeys to work in some European cities with a population above 250,000.[2]
| City | walking | cycling | public transport | private motor vehicle | year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aarhus | 7% | 27% | 19% | 43% | 2004 |
| Alicante | 18% | 0% | 13% | 69% | 2004 |
| Amsterdam | 4% | 22% | 30% | 44% | 2004 |
| Bari | 13% | 1% | 14% | 72% | 2001 |
| Berlin | 30% | 13% | 26% | 31% | 2008 |
| Bern | 11% | 11% | 54% | 24% | 2001 |
| Bilbao | 23% | 0% | 34% | 43% | 2004 |
| Birmingham | 1% | 1% | 25% | 66% | 2001 |
| Bologna | 8% | 4% | 21% | 67% | 2001 |
| Bonn | 9% | 13% | 21% | 57% | 2004 |
| Bratislava | 4% | 0% | 70% | 26% | 2004 |
| Bremen | 7% | 19% | 24% | 50% | 2004 |
| Budapest | 22% | 2% | 30% | 46% | 2004 |
| Helsinki | 12% | 6% | 40% | 41% | 2004 |
| Cologne | 8% | 9% | 27% | 56% | 2004 |
| Copenhagen | 6% | 36% | 29% | 26% | 2004 |
| Córdoba | 18% | 1% | 10% | 71% | 2004 |
| Dortmund | 7% | 3% | 23% | 67% | 2004 |
| Dresden | 24% | 17% | 21% | 38% | 2008 |
| Düsseldorf | 11% | 5% | 31% | 53% | 2004 |
| Eindhoven | 3% | 24% | 8% | 65% | 2004 |
| Essen | 9% | 2% | 20% | 69% | 2004 |
| Florence | 8% | 4% | 21% | 69% | 2001 |
| Frankfurt | 11% | 7% | 39% | 43% | 2004 |
| Freiburg im Breisgau | 11% | 13% | 12% | 63% | 2004 |
| Gijón | 24% | 0% | 17% | 59% | 2004 |
| Göteborg | 12% | 14% | 21% | 52% | 2004 |
| Hamburg | 8% | 8% | 33% | 51% | 2004 |
| Hanover | 9% | 13% | 29% | 49% | 2004 |
| Las Palmas | 12% | 0% | 24% | 64% | 2004 |
| Lisbon | 10% | 0% | 46% | 40% | 2001 |
| Madrid | 9% | 0% | 43% | 48% | 2004 |
| Málaga | 12% | 0% | 11% | 77% | 2004 |
| Malmö | 6% | 24% | 18% | 51% | 2004 |
| Munich | 9% | 8% | 41% | 41% | 2004 |
| Murcia | 18% | 1% | 7% | 74% | 2004 |
| Naples | 13% | 0% | 26% | 60% | 2001 |
| Nuremberg | 11% | 7% | 30% | 52% | 2004 |
| Palermo | 12% | 1% | 9% | 78% | 2001 |
| Paris | 55% | 3% | 31% | 11% | 2008[3] |
| Prague | 23% | 1% | 43% | 33% | 2009[4] |
| Rome | 7% | 0% | 24% | 68% | 2001 |
| Rotterdam | 5% | 14% | 25% | 56% | 2004 |
| Stockholm | 15% | 7% | 43% | 33% | 2004 |
| The Hague | 5% | 22% | 30% | 43% | 2004 |
| Seville | 13% | 1% | 15% | 71% | 2004 |
| Stuttgart | 13% | 4% | 32% | 51% | 2004 |
| Tallinn | 16% | 0% | 50% | 34% | 2004 |
| Turin | 12% | 3% | 5% | 79% | 2004 |
| Utrecht | 3% | 21% | 25% | 51% | 2004 |
| Valencia | 16% | 1% | 21% | 62% | 2004 |
| Valladolid | 22% | 1% | 20% | 57% | 2004 |
| Vienna | 28% | 5% | 36% | 31 % | 2010[5] |
| Vigo | 19% | 0% | 13% | 68% | 2004 |
| Warsaw | 21% | 1% | 54% | 24% | 2005[6] |
| Zaragoza | 17% | 0% | 29% | 54% | 2004 |
| Zilina | 34.6% | 3.6% | 24.2% | 37.6% | .... |
| Zürich | 8% | 5% | 63% | 25% | 2001 |
The Charter of Brussels, signed by 36 cities including Brussels, Ghent, Milan, Munich, Seville, Edinburgh, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Gdansk, and Timisoara, commits the signatories to achieve at least 15% of bicycling modal share by 2020, and calls upon European institutions to do likewise.[7]