We all know that public transport is good for the environment. Many people on the same bus or train means less carbon per person. There are many reasons for why traveling with strangers is better than traveling alone or with a friend or two, but I won’t get into them. However I am going to encourage you to use public transport using a new method, wikipedia statistics.
The table below shows how many people die using different types of transport. There are many different ways of measuring it, and we will be looking at three types here, deaths per billion journeys, deaths per billion hours, and deaths per billion kilometers. You are free to chose the statistic which best serves your needs, in my case I will use all. Just take a look at the top three spots. When comparing by hours it’s all public transport (yes I am considering air public transport, I don’t think private jet is included in this statistic) except for the third spot for the journeys, it’s a van. But come on, we all know that a van journey can be to the supermarket, not a very long one.
So the bottom line is if you use public transport, you might die less. I am only afraid of one thing, that I might be encouraging you to replace your car with a bus. That is definitely not good for our air.
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