Heavy traffic on the Quai de la Fosse in Nantes (illustration).

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F. Brenon / 20Minutes

  • Only 16% of workers in the Loire region abandon the car for their commute to work.

  • More than 50% of trips under one kilometer are made by car.

  • Regardless of the distance, 90% of those driving are alone in their car.

Clearly, there is still a lot of work to do to change travel habits.

In Pays-de-la-Loire, 84% of people traveling to their place of work do so by car, an INSEE survey has just revealed.

This is two points more than at the national level.

The other “commuters” are 7% using public transport, 5% walking, 3% cycling and 1% motorized two-wheelers.

If the use of the car logically decreases with the reduction in the distance to be covered, it remains predominant.

It goes from 91% for journeys of more than 5 kilometers, to 67% for those of 5 km maximum.

“Even for very short journeys, car use remains the majority, since it is still 52% for journeys of at most one kilometer,” notes INSEE.

Carpooling is struggling to convince since 90% of those at the wheel are alone in their car.

Walking and cycling are not very attractive

The use of the car is less in the catchment areas of Nantes, Le Mans and Angers, given the “more developed intra-urban public transport networks in these large cities”.

For example, it is only 58% in Nantes' inner suburbs, 65% at Le Mans and 67% in Angers.

Carpooling struggles to convince since 90% of active driving are alone in their car, notes INSEE.

Across the Pays-de-la-Loire region, 70% of “commuters” cover a distance of more than five kilometers.

They are 17.4% to accomplish a distance between two and five kilometers and only 12.4% have less than two kilometers to complete, indicates INSEE.

The use of soft modes of transport (walking and cycling) is, unsurprisingly, specific to short distances.

But the room for improvement remains enormous: barely more than a third of the working population choose to walk and, above all, to pedal for a home-work trip that is less than two kilometers.

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