Mobility and transport

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Key figures on mobility and transport

	Valure	Year	Change from 2000
Total costs1 of transport	CHF 93.5 bn	2010	...
National road network length	1 855 km	2017	+13%
Stock of passenger cars	4 602 688	2018	+30%
Average daily distance per person2	36.8 km	2015	+5%
Passenger transport performance3	134.6 billion person-km	2017	+32%
Public transport share	19%	2017	+3 pp
Goods transport performance4	27.3 billion tonnes-km	2017	+16%
Rail share	37%	2017	–5 pp
Road deaths	230	2017	–61%
Transport's5 share of CO2 emissions	38%	2016	+2 pp

1) Road, rail and air traffic. Incl. non-material costs due to damage to environment and health as well as accidents
2) Swiss permanent residents of 6 years and over. Distances inside Switzerland
3) Rail and road incl. human-powered mobility (on foot, by bike)
4) Rail and road
5) Excl. international aviation
pp = percentage points Sources: FSO – Goods transport statistics (GTS), Costs and funding of transport (CFT), Passenger transport performance (PV-L); FSO, ARE – Mobility and transport microcensus (MTMC); FSO, FEDRO – Stock of road motor vehicles (MFZ); FEDRO, FSO – Road accidents (SVU); FEDRO – Length of Swiss motorway network; FOEN – Greenhouse gas inventory

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