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DefinitelyNotMasterS t1_jdw81d0 wrote

Pretty funny how Switzerland is bigger than Germany. Makes it look like Germany has a much higher density, which it probably doesn't.

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TravelTime_LKB OP t1_jdw9g3t wrote

That's my bad with the zoom levels, although I had a look using the same scale for each country and Germany 'appears' to have better coverage to Switzerland still - I use inverted commas as obviously Switzerland's geography obviously has a big part to play in this!

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Sophroniskos t1_jdwmdg1 wrote

it probably looks like this because, in Switzerland, the density in the dense parts is "denser" than in Germany

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LordElend t1_jdx98c1 wrote 

Switzerland	Germany

Population: 8,703,000 83,196,000

Inhabitants/km²: 210.8 232.7

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rosszboss t1_jdxik45 wrote

They said dense parts, compare Berlin to zurich

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LordElend t1_jdxkr0w wrote

Population density Source: Wikipedia, 2023.

3900 people/km² Berlin

4092 people/km² Zürich

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SuperSMT t1_jdzrxzo wrote

Still not directly comparable, especially using arbitrary city boundaries
It would be hard to do but the most apt comparison is between all of the swiss lowlands in the north vs an equivalent size area of germany

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LordElend t1_jdzy3v3 wrote

swiss lowlands 10'062,05 km²

Inhabitants/km²: 380

Which region of Germany should I use so it can be comparable?

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Sophroniskos t1_je6b83x wrote

The Saarland has a population density of 382. However, regardless of the actual density, every dense region will look completely red. It's just that Germany has no large uninhabited areas whereas the Alps in Switzerland are almost uninhabitable.
TLDR: Switzerland's network is denser, it just has bigger holes

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LordElend t1_je6ydgi wrote

Swiss train service is a lot better though we can agree on that. Without looking down on the Deutsche Bahn.

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EmpereurAuguste t1_je43zor wrote

You cannot tell the efficiency of a countries public transport just by looking at the dots, maybe more busses/trains go through them and more people use it.

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Daaaaaaaavidmit8a t1_jdz9r1d wrote

I don't know if you looked at rail only or at all methods of public transport, but here's what I found about rail only.

Germany has 461 km of rail per one million inhabitants. Switzerland has 609 km of rail per one million inhabitants.

Germany has 109 meters of rail per square kilometre. Switzerland has 128 meters of rail per square kilometre.

So the Railway network of Switzerland is indeed denser than germanys.

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DarkImpacT213 t1_jdz2du5 wrote

Germany has a very dense railway network though still, and the reason for that goes back to the Kaiserreich. Most of the rails do too, probably, haha.

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