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I'd love to learn more about Europe being more reliant on trucks for delivery than the US. Got any references handy?

• n4r9 2y ago
  Not OP but did a quick google and found: https://www.theglobalist.com/america-and-europe-keep-on-trucking/ https://www.theglobalist.com/america-and-europe-keep-on-truc... > 63 trucks per 1,000 people in the EU — compared to only 21 trucks per 1,000 people in the United States The reasons given are the increased urbanisation in Europe, difficulty of cross-border rail integration, tighter driver hours regulations, and the fact that drivers are not paid per distance/time as they may be in the US.
• capitainenemo 2y ago
  That one is easy. There is plenty of data out there. "In 2016 (EU-28), the share of rail in freight transport was less than 15 percent and the share of road freight around 80 percent." https://dhl-freight-connections.com/en/trends/global-freight-transport-statistics-international-europe-and-germany/ https://dhl-freight-connections.com/en/trends/global-freight... "Freight rail accounts for around 40% of long-distance ton-miles" (USA) https://www.aar.org/data-center/ https://www.aar.org/data-center/ Those line up with figures elsewhere like on wikipedia. So US transports 2-3x more by rail. And yes as people pointed out there are other factors impacting Europe. But one of the many is a rail system designed for passengers, not freight (see links in comment below). Unfortunately you can't pack tons of people in with the same efficiencies of slow speeds and really long trains that you can for freight, so every measure possible should be made to increase freight by train until truck transport is reduced to a minimum. Certainly long-distance truck.