Costs and funding of transport

The statistics on costs and funding of transport (CFT statistics) provide an overview of the economic costs of road, rail, air and inland waterways transport. In addition to expenditure on infrastructure and means of transport, accident costs and costs for transport-related damage to the environment and health are also considered in the process. The statistics also show who bears the various costs.

Fact sheet

Further information

Sources

The statistics on costs and funding of transport (CFT) is a model calculation based on various data sources including:

• Road account (STR)
• Surveying of transport companies
• Passenger transport performance (PV-L)
• Goods transport statistics (GTS)
• Calculations of external costs (Federal Office for Spatial Development, ARE)

Methodologies

Results, publications

Federal Statistical Office (FSO) – Costs and funding of transport