Ireland’s dependence on the car has been brought into sharp focus this week with publication of the National Travel Survey 2014, which shows that three out of four journeys outside of Dublin are made by car, while half of all Irish people use a car to travel journeys of less than 2km.
The National Travel Survey 2014, conducted by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) includes information from 10,382 respondents and outlines the travel habits of people in Ireland.
The most common reasons for making a journey in 2014 were to travel to and from work (25 per cent) or to go shopping (24 per cent). The average journey distance was 14.6 kms and on average took 22.7 minutes to complete.
Journeys in Dublin tended to be shorter, but took longer to complete. Journeys of the same distance took almost 70 per cent longer in Dublin, compared to the rest of the country.
More than one in five Dubliners (21.1 per cent) chose to walk or cycle on their journeys, compared with 14.1 per cent across the rest of the country. Outside Dublin, 73.9 per cent of journeys were by car.
