Transport infrastructure and vehicles

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The Swiss transport infrastructure encompasses 83 274 km of road, 5196 km of railway track plus 14 national and regional airports. It is used by a wide variety of vehicles. In 2020, over 6.2 million motor vehicles travelled on the roads, 4.7 million of which were cars.

Key figures on transport infrastructure and vehicles

Infrastructure and network length
Rail network length1	5 196 km r	2015
Road network length	83 274 km	2020
of which motorways	1 544 km	2020
National and regional airports	14	2019
Vehicles
Tractive railway vehicles	3 238	2015
Stock of road motor vehicles (excl. mopeds)	6 241 142 p	2020
Change	+36% p	2000–2020
Passenger cars	4 658 335 p	2020
New registrations of passenger cars	312 902	2019
Aircraft2	3 211	2019
Private passenger vessels3	96 319	2019

r revised
p provisional data
1) Property length
2) Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, powered gliders, gliders, free balloons, airships
3) Motor, sailing, rowing boats etc. Sources: FSO – Public transport statistics (TP); FSO, FEDRO – New registrations of road vehicles (IVS), Stock of road vehicles (MFZ), Road length (STL); FSO, FOCA – Civil aviation statistics (AVIA_ZL); Swiss association of the registration offices – Number of vessels

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