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Very cool. Coincidentally, I had to use the same data recently to prove a news article falsely claimed my country had one of the oldest passenger car distributions...

But I did notice you left out some countries. Because their data was different than the standard?

Scaling here is bad presentation, if required.

German and Belgium network are perfect

Italia is like : Let just build the north lol

It’d be interesting to see how these maps differed based on frequency of service

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It isn't really cheap to build on swampy soil either. It requires months for soil/sand to set, digging requires constant pumping and anything build up requires piling to be stable. One tunnel in the Netherlands was postponed over 5 years because it kept filling with water, for example. The geography matters, but it is far more complex than orography alone.

Based on this. It will take a long time after the EU stops selling fossil fuel vehicles to have them leave the road.

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What's your birthday?

You need the buses to go to all the tiny villages to let grandma go shopping. They are already part of the landscape. Especially all kind of weird bus stops in the middle of nowhere. It was a national disgrace the day a British multinational (Arriva) bought the most loved local bus line (Castromil) with such a defining national name : the Castro culture was the most important period of ancient Galician identity and the time at which we got our name.

It's Galicia. The population is extremely disperse within the mountains and hills. It's a radically different ecological environment compared to the rest of the country, translated into a vastly different human environment. Whereas the rest of the country has big cities or towns separated several kilometers, Galicia is full of small villages and homesteads next to each other. There are 50,000 population centers (cities, towns, villages) in all Spain (except Galicia), and about the same amount just inside Galicia. The population though is not that big or concentrated, but very dispersed. Of about 47M people in Spain, only 3M live in Galicia. There are no "big" cities. The two major ones are about 300,000 and that's almost too much already.

Hmm what's going on with the cheddar states??

Well in Switzerland you can clearly see the mountains. The North has mostly only small hills while the high mountains are in the south where there is significantly less public transport (and a much power population density)

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Switzerland is comparably rich though

No, most are sold west to collectors and garages for nie than they were with new...

Do you consider yourself rich or middle-class?

Agreed. The Italian region with the (relatively) worst public transports is Sardinia. Which seem fairly represented on that map. Everything else should show more connections.

That's my bad with the zoom levels, although I had a look using the same scale for each country and Germany 'appears' to have better coverage to Switzerland still - I use inverted commas as obviously Switzerland's geography obviously has a big part to play in this!

Awesome graph! May I use this for a school presentation? I was literally searching for a graph like yours with no success and then boom… this pops up on my feed

Small note as a Belgian: yes we have good connectivity, but that costly affair is caused by the fact that our population is spread out over the country, as opposed to centralised in city/village centres.

Interesting number would be average walking time/distance it takes to reach a public transport stop.

Pretty funny how Switzerland is bigger than Germany. Makes it look like Germany has a much higher density, which it probably doesn't.

No no no, That’s just an empty map of the us!

Wait.

Yeah, that’s right.