I immediately thought that’s not totally fair due to the size of the Netherlands vs other countries.
replyI asked Mistral to do an analysis: nearly zero R^2 for car ownership vs log country area, and it’s the same with proportion of urban population in OECD countries.
Netherlands isn’t very different from peers in car ownership, they just treat cyclists very well it seems.
This is a total tangent, just found it interesting.
As it turns out, people live in cities[1]. The amount of empty space a country has outside of cities doesn't have much bearing on navigation and infrastructure inside cities.
replyRight, but there’s zero correlation between urban population percentage and cars per capita either, which was surprising to me. I’d have expected a vague logistic curve.
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