In college, I do not use a lot of transportation because I live on campus. At home and during high school, I used my car quite often. I drove to school, work, home, and out with friends. That was my main method for travel. When I lived at home, my commute to high school was about five minutes; my parents traveled about ten minutes to get to work; and anywhere else in town that we wanted to go was only about five to ten minutes by car. We never used public transportation. I still do not think I have ever road any sort of public transportation besides the school bus in middle school.
To start off though, one of the similarities between the USA and Germany is that they do not always like taxis because they can be costly and also inconvenient in high traffic. But, when it comes to the Germany otherwise, the style of transportation is quite different. For example, traveling by private car for them can be inconvenient because of city traffic and parking fees. Another difference is that, unlike the area where I lived growing up where we had like one local bus, they have many different methods of public transportation. For local travel, buses, S-Bahn (commuter train), U-Bahn (underground), and Straßenbahn (tram) are available. For inter-city travel, the German Rail is popular along with ICE, a high-speed inter-city express. One of the reasons why Germany has such great transportation is because there are so many people in such a small area, so efficiency is key. Trans-European Transport Network allows many different ways to travel by road or train in order to move to other countries. Germany has several countries bordering it, so being able to travel to different countries is really great.
http://www.about-germany.org/life/gettingaround.php
http://ic.daad.de/accra/en/20938/
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