Member Profile
Budapest (HU)
Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, is facing a series of challenges in the field of transport and mobility: an increasing number of cars, lack of high-capacity roads which make it possible to avoid the city for through-traffic, lack of an extended high-capacity local public transport network (e.g. subway, suburban railway) and growing sub-urbanisation.
Altogether, this causes increasing car traffic along with all of its negative effects such as noise and pollution.
Budapest is involved in the EU project CATCH-MR.
- Member Type: Full Member
- Management Committee: Yes
General Information
- Land area: 525 km²
- Total population: 1.721.556 (2009)
- Population density: 3280 / km² (2009)
Road network length
- Motorways: 0
- Main roads: 1000 (2011)
- Secondary roads: 3000 (2011)
- Cycling network: 200 (2011)
Traffic volume
- Traffic volume: 1,87 million trips/day (2004)
Public transport
- Metro: 35 km (2009)
- Tram: 156 km (2009)
- Bus: 1060 km (inlc. trollybus) (2009)
Modal split
- Car: 28,8%
- Public transport: 45,9%
- Cycling: 1,3%
- Walking: 21,8%
- Other 2,2%