Walking or Cycling to School and Work in the Netherlands, 2022

A 2022 map from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior shows the percentage of people aged 18-65 who traveled to school or work on foot or by bicycle. The data includes multi-modal trips, such as cycling to a bus stop. Information is available at both national and district levels.

Use Cases

• Modeling active transportation adoption based on geographic area.
• Identifying districts with high cycling/walking rates for infrastructure investment.
• Analyzing multi-modal commuting patterns that combine active and public transport.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific demographic (ages 18-65) for a defined year (2022).
• Includes multi-modal journeys, providing a more complete picture of active transportation use.
• Offers geographic detail at both national and district levels.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely derived from survey or administrative data, as described in the map.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Netherlands (implied by the ministry's jurisdiction), with district-level detail.