With a public transport system among the most heavily used in the world, we look at why this metropolis is top of its class for getting around

 

High vehicle taxes mean that less than one-fifth of Hong Kong’s residents travel through the city from behind the wheel of their own car. However, levies also encourage people to use public transport: over 90% of daily journeys are made this way, the highest rate in the world.

 

The city’s highly efficient public transport network is one of the reasons Hong Kong has taken the top spot on Arcadis’s Sustainable Cities Mobility Index, an offshoot oftheir Sustainable Cities Index report.

 

The global design and consultancy firm partnered with the Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr) to assess the social and human implications of urban mobility systems, their environmental impact and ability to facilitate growth and support business. Twenty-three indicators – including the share of trips taken by public transport, greenhouse gas emissions, and commuting travel times – were used to rank 100 global cities. An average of each city’s score in the people, planet and profit sub-indexes was then used to create the overall scores and rankings.

 

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