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by siraben 1465 days ago
> Japan, everyone’s favorite high public transit country with a lot of demand for maps, has a higher car ownership % than the US. They just discourage using them for personal trips and commutes via small roads, toll highways, expensive parking etc.

Do you have a reference for this? From a precursory search it seems the US has a much higher car ownership rate.
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astrange 1465 days ago
Looks like I remembered it wrong. Still, it’s quite high and more than Australia/Canada.

https://internationalcomparisons.org/environmental/transport... (2015)

The UK having the highest transit mode share (in 2014) is a bit surprising.

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aikinai 1465 days ago
These stats all look wrong for Japan at least. I’ve done research specifically into Japanese transportation modes in Japanese using authoritative sources and the real stats are more in line with what you’d expect (i.e. more public transportation, more biking, less cars). I can’t grab the sources right now, but might try to come back and add them later.
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fomine3 1465 days ago
Another source: > 6-2 Number of motor vehicles owned in Japan and other countries (2017) https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jrctptpe/2020/0/2020_63...

I think there are more business vehicles in Japan. There are too much sales people. Goods transport is mainly done by vehicles.

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zx8080 1465 days ago
According to [0], the US has higher (812 per 1k population) than Japan (590).

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicle...

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