No decimal values

It is very popular among traffic planners to provide seemingly very exact numbers - like "we have 3.44 percent bicycle share - which is an increase of 37.52% from last year". TEMS intentionally does not provide such numbers, as this is always an exactness that in reality does not exist. Moreover, such multiple digit numbers make reading, comparability and memorisation more difficult: for example 3.42 looks quite different from 2.98 - while in reality it is the same - around 3%. Also, it is hard to compare 3.42% with 11.96% - while to compare 3% and 12% is much easier.

Cities above 100.000 inhabitants

TEMS aims to show the modal split of all cities in the EU with more than 100.000 inhabitants (there are well over 600 such cities). Data of smaller cities are for the moment accepted but the service might be discontinued if there are too many to handle.

Non European Cities

Submissions from Non-European cities will be accepted to a limited extent, for testing and demonstration purposes only. However, if an organisation or country is prepared to share the administration and processing costs, EPOMM is ready to negotiate an agreement.

Check by the administrator

All uploaded cities are checked and located on the map by the administrator after the upload process. If the numbers do not add up to 100% or if the data for any reason seem not to be OK, the authors are contacted. Until this is clarified, the city data are not made public.

Only 100 cities at a time - deeper analysis only by request

You can only look at the city data of 100 cities at a time - the graph is only provide for the 20 largest cities. If you are interested to make a deeper analysis you can ask the administrator by sending a mail with the form below. You will receive a reply within a week. However, requests from EPOMM member states are treated preferentially.

Cities should upload and control data themselves

Ultimately, EPOMM would prefer that each city takes responsibility for their modal split data and uploads and controls the data themselves. However, TEMS has only started in May 2011 and is not yet well known. Therefore EPOMM-PLUS and its partners in most European countries have taken the initiative to collect the city data - you can contact them via epomm.eu/countries.

Data comparability

EPOMM hopes TEMS will enable comparison and a positive competition between cities for more sustainability. EPOMM is well aware that comparability is difficult with so many different survey methods - but it is far better then non-availability of data. With TEMS EPOMM aims to promote efforts and discussions to make modal split data and surveys more standardised in the future.