Cars drove 137.5 billion kilometers on Dutch roads last year. That is almost the same as the year before, it appears Numbers from Statistics Netherlands. The growth in the number of car kilometers thus appears to be leveling off, after years of sharp increases.
Since 2015, the total number of car kilometers traveled by buses, trucks, vans, passenger cars and special vehicles on Dutch roads has increased by an average of more than 2 billion kilometers. That was significantly less last year, with a plus of about four hundred million kilometers (0.3 percent). The figures also include the kilometers of foreign vehicles that have driven in the Netherlands.
Between 2014 and 2019, the number of kilometers traveled on Dutch roads increased by 7.7 percent. The strongest increase was noted for delivery vans and heavy trucks, with 14.7 and 12.6 percent respectively. The increase for passenger cars was considerably less in that period (6.3 percent).
The figures also show that foreign trucks are increasingly driving on Dutch roads. Last year they drove 907 million kilometers in the Netherlands. That is 27 percent more than five years earlier. More and more often this concerns vehicles from Central and Eastern Europe, with Poland in particular. Last year, Polish trucks were responsible for about a third of all kilometers driven by foreign trucks in the Netherlands.