Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal shift from road to rail

Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by jdietrich on Saturday October 12, 2024 @05:59PM (#41823076)

Road vehicles are heavily taxed in European countries. I don't have the figures for Germany, but the UK spends £12bn per year on roads, while it collects £25bn in road fuel duty and £7bn in vehicle excise duty.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/298675/united-kingdom-uk...

https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/...

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by V__ on Saturday October 12, 2024 @06:14PM (#41823183)

Vehicle, gas and similar taxes are about €50bn in Germany. The cost of the road system is about €70bn.

[1] https://www.forschung-und-wissen.de/nachrichten/oekonomie/au...

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by taffer on Saturday October 12, 2024 @06:20PM (#41823224)

According to a study by the HTW Berlin, Germany collects €50 billion in road taxes and duties, but spends €30 billion on road maintenance and €30 billion on traffic police and road accident victims. Add to this an estimated €10-30 billion in environmental damage due to air and noise pollution.

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by threeseed on Saturday October 12, 2024 @06:44PM (#41823380)

There are also deaths caused by road accidents and health issues caused by pollution.

Those have real economic impacts which aren’t being reflected in the true cost of cars.

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Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal sh... by okr on Saturday October 12, 2024 @08:07PM (#41823940)

Life is dangerous. Wait until you find out, how many people die from falling off a ladder.

Gosh, it will take ages, before this green brain washing will be wiped of people's memory.

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