The numbers missing in those statistics is how many cars versus how many trucks?
For example, it's more impactful to swap out 1 million trucks driving 12 hours a day than 10 million cars each being driven for less than an hour. Same as for buses, they're on the road all day long doing multiple trips.
most of these passengers are also just carrying a single person. The car industry has won the culture war and convinced everyone it's normal and sane for every individual to have a car and use it all the time instead of investing in our public transportation infrastructure
We're about to have rail strikes in the UK. I asked a taxi driver in London whether he gets more trips/surge, and he said it gets more than negated by the added traffic.
And that really brought home how a public transport infrastructure also massively benefits drivers. Cities without it (I'm thinking of LA specifically) are gridlocked.
> In the chart here we see global transport emissions in 2018. This data is sourced from the International Energy Agency (IEA) [2].
> Road travel accounts for three-quarters of transport emissions.
> Most of this comes from passenger vehicles – cars and buses – which contribute 45.1%. The other 29.4% comes from trucks carrying freight.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport
[2] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/transport-sec...