Mobility and transport

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Key figures on mobility and transport

	Value	Year	Change from 2000
Total costs1 of transport	CHF 89.7 billion	2016	...
National road network length	1 859 km	2018	+13%
Stock of passenger cars	4 623 952	2019	+30%
Average daily distance per person2	36.8 km	2015	+5%
Passenger transport performance3	135.7 billion person-km	2018	+33%
Public transport share	19%	2018	+3 pp
Air passengers4	58.6 million	2019	+70%
Goods transport performance5	27.9 billion tonnes-km	2018	+19%
Rail share	37%	2018	–5 pp
Persons killed in road traffic	233	2018	–61%
Transport's6 share of CO2 emissions	39%	2017	+3 pp

1) Road, rail and air transport, without human-powered mobility (on foot, by bike). Including non-material costs due to damage to environment and health as well as accidents
2) Distances inside Switzerland
3) Rail and road incl. human-powered mobility
4) Local and transfer passengers in scheduled and charter flights
5) Rail and road. In combined transport calculated without the tare weight of the loaded road vehicles, containers and swap bodies (i.e. for rail: net tonne-kilometres)
6) 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); FSO, FOCA – Aviation, scheduled and charter flights (AVIA_LC); FEDRO, FSO – Road accidents (SVU); FEDRO – Length of Swiss motorway network; FOEN – Greenhouse gas inventory

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