In London, Amsterdam and Brussels, drivers spend more than 50 hours a year in road traffic. In Manchester and Paris, they spend more than 70 hours stuck on roads.

Transport has become a lot safer. The number of people killed in road accidents in 2010 is expected to be 40% lower than in 2000.

The risk of being killed in a plane crash in America is 1 in 11 million.

Transport has become a lot safer. The number of people killed in road accidents in 2010 is expected to be 40% lower than in 2000.

Opened in 1994, the Channel Tunnel carries passengers between the UK and France on a high speed railway.