More than 1.2 million trips by train and bus every day mean that NS has a major impact on society in the Netherlands: in mobility, safety, emissions and expenditure. We express the positive and negative environmental and socioeconomic effects on our surroundings in euros in order to present a transparent picture of the breakdown and scale of this social impact. More information about the background to the impact analysis is available at www.ns.nl/mvoberekeningen.

Our impact in a nutshell

The diagram below shows developments over the past two years and the relative scale of the social impact. Our social impact has improved in virtually all areas. Passengers travelled 150 million kilometres more by train in 2017 compared with 2016, which means that our positive social impact on mobility and safe travel with respect to cars has improved once again. As trains and buildings used only wind energy in 2017, this improved our environmental impact.