Sustainable Mobility

A good prerequisite for sustainable mobility in Prague is the relatively long length of metro lines per 1 million inhabitants, which is more comparable to developed Western European cities than to comparable capital cities of post-communist countries such as Warsaw and Budapest.

Chart: Subway length per 1 million inhabitants

Year: 2011–2020

Area: City territory

*Source: TSK Praha, wien.gv.at, stadt.muenchen.de, Statistical Office in Warszawa, static.bkv.hu, Statistic Denmark, ajuntament.barcelona.cat/estadistica - Departament d'Estadística i Difusió de Dades - Ajuntament de Barcelona, data.amsterdam.nl, sisi.comune.milano.it 

Data are for 2011 (Warsaw 2010), 2015, 2020. 

On the other hand, the level of motorization and number of cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Prague hinder sustainable mobility efforts. It is worth noting that this metric has shown an upward trend in major post-communist cities, including Prague, Warsaw, and Budapest, between 2011 and 2022. Five out of the seven remaining cities being monitored have reported a decrease in this metric.

Chart: Number of passenger cars per 1000 inhabitants

Year: 2011–2020

Area: City territory

*Source: TSK Praha, wien.gv.at, stadt.muenchen.de, Statistical Office in Warszawa, ksh.hu, Statistic Denmark, ajuntament.barcelona.cat/estadistica - Departament d'Estadística i Difusió de Dades - Ajuntament de Barcelona, Bundesamt für Statistik, data.amsterdam.nl, sisi.comune.milano.it 
 

Data are for 2011 (Vienna 2012, Amsterdam 2015) and 2020 (Amsterdam 2019). 

In terms of replacing petrol and diesel cars with cleaner fuels, Prague ranked the lowest among all cities in 2019-2021, with the lowest share of electric and hybrid cars. While other forms of fuel, such as hydrogen, may eventually become more prevalent, it is important to consider the current reluctance towards new fuels in the local environment.

Chart: Share of electric cars and hybrids in the total number of registered passenger cars

Year: 2019–2021

Area: City territory

*Source: Websites pragozor.cz and TSK Praha, wien.gv.at, stadt.muenchen.de, warszawa.naszemiasto.pl and Statistical Office in Warszawa, villanyautosok.hu - from BM data and ksh.hu, Statistic Denmark, ajuntament.barcelona.cat/estadistica - Departament d'Estadística i Difusió de Dades - Ajuntament de Barcelona, Bundesamt für Statistik, opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/ - CBS, istat.it 
 

The data for Amsterdam are at the NUTS 1 Netherlands level (i.e., for the whole of the Netherlands), including calculations by IPR Prague.