European Mobility Week

European Mobility Week
'Zero-emission mobility for all' is the main theme of this year’s European Mobility Week. It will take place between 16 and 22 September, and will conclude with a day without cars in line with the World Car Free Day, which is celebrated on September 22. The theme reflects the ambitious target of Europe becoming a carbon-neutral continent by 2050, as is stated in the European Green Deal. Transport accounts for a quarter of the EU greenhouse gas emissions, and these continue to grow. The Green Deal, however, seeks a 90% reduction in these emissions to take place by 2050. At present, road transport contributes more than 70% of all greenhouse gases, originating from all transport modes.


Emissions originating from transport in Slovenia
SURS's calculations revealed that in 2017 CO₂ emissions originating from transport presented 44% of all CO₂ emissions, while NO_x emissions originating from transport presented 57% of all NO_x emissions and PM₁₀ particulate matter emissions originating from transport presented 15% of all PM₁₀ emissions.
In Slovenia emissions from transport originate almost exclusively from road transport, which is mostly due to a relatively small scale of air and water transport. Emissions originating from goods road vehicles and buses are predominant in road transport: in 2017, CO₂ emissions originating from goods road vehicles and buses represented 67% of all CO₂ emissions originating in road transport, while with NO_x and PM₁₀ emissions this share amounted to 69% and 51%, respectively. The remaining share was represented by emissions from the use of passenger vehicles (cars, motorcycles and mopeds). The trend of CO₂ emissions originating from transport is worrying, since they increased by 2% in the 2008–2017 ten-year period, while total CO₂ emissions in the same period decreased by 17% (mainly due to the decrease of CO₂ emissions originating from manufacturing, and electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply).
Contrary to the CO₂ emissions trend, in the 2008–2017 period emissions of pollutants originating in road transport decreased: NO_x emissions by 44% and PM₁₀ emissions by 23% (in the same period, total NO_x emissions decreased by 43% and PM₁₀ emissions decreased by 18%).
 

The motorization rate in Slovenia and in EU countries
In the last 20 years (2000–2019), the motorization rate in Slovenia increased by 28%: in 2000, there were 435 passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, while in 2019 there were 556.
In 2018, the motorization rate ranked Slovenia as 10th among the EU countries. The number of passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants was the highest in Luxembourg and Italy (676 and 646, respectively), and in Finland and Cyprus (629 in each); the numbers were the lowest in Hungary, Latvia and Rumania (373, 369 and 332, respectively). In all EU countries, the motorization rate increased in 20 years (1999–2018), but in various countries growth differed: it was the lowest in France and Portugal (5% and 7%, respectively), and the highest in Poland and Romania (154% and 150%, respectively).

Only 1% of passenger cars doesn’t run on diesel or petrol
In the last 20 years (2000–2019), the number of passenger cars registered in Slovenia increased by 35%. At the end of 2019, there were 1,165,371 cars, 50% of them were using diesel and 49% petrol.
The remaining 1 % were almost 2,000 electric and 6,800 hybrid passenger cars. The number of these passenger cars increased slightly in the last three years. In part this was due to the financial encouragement of Eco Fund (Slovenian Environmental Public Fund) with the loan or grant financing programmes, available to the Slovenian households. Wider usage of electric and hybrid cars could help diminish the emissions originating from road transport, and could have an impact on lessening the air pollution – especially in the urban areas.

Passengers in public transport
In the last ten years (2010–2019), the number of passengers increased in urban transport by 24%, it remained about the same in interurban bus transport, and decreased in national railway transport by 26%. In the same period, the number of registered passenger cars increased by 10%.
This year is outstanding due to total lock-down of public transport. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, there are restrictions on the operating of the public transport, which influenced the volume of passengers. The data for the first half of 2020 show that the number of passengers in bus transport decreased by half, and in rail transport by a third.
 


Final consumption of households – transport
Slovenia has the highest share of final consumption expenditure of households in the European Union that is intended for transport. In 2018, transport expenditure accounted for 16.9% of total final consumption expenditure. In transport, fuel expenditure predominated with the highest share of the final consumption expenditure in Slovenia. It should be emphasized that fuel expenditure covers not only the expenditure of the Slovenian households, but also that of foreigners, as Slovenia is known as a transit country. Slovenia's expenditure on transport services represents a very low share, as this is among the lowest in the European Union.



At this occasion, SURS enriched the range of published data on passenger daily mobility in Slovenia in 2017 in the SiStat Database (see Transport).