INSEE delivered home-work travel statistics for France. And emphasizes: “In the 19 municipalities with more than 150,000 inhabitants, 12% to 31% of home-work trips are made on foot or by bicycle. This difference is mainly explained by the use of the bicycle which concerns only 2% of the working population living in Saint-Étienne, Marseille and Nice but 17% in Grenoble and Strasbourg. In Grenoble, distances of less than 5 kilometers are frequent (67% of working people) and may explain this frequent recourse to cycling. “
Note that in France, between 2015 and 2020, the use of a bicycle to get to work increased by 2 points in the central municipalities, reaching 6% at the start of 2020.
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The car remains the main mode of travel
The share of working people walking to work is less differentiated according to the big cities since it ranges between 10% in Nantes, Marseille, Strasbourg, Le Havre, Paris and 15% in Lyon. Grenoble is at 13.8%.
If Grenoble remains at the top for the use of the bicycle, let us recall all the same that the majority transport remains the car (39.3%) in front of the public transport (29%).
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