Mobility and transport

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	Value	Year	Change from 2000
Total costs1 of transport	CHF 94.9 billion	2018	...
Road network length	84 114 km	2021	...
Stock of passenger cars	4 688 235	2021	+32%
Average daily distance per person2	36.8 km	2015	+5%
Passenger transport performance3	110.8 billion person-km	2020	+9%
Public transport share	17%	2020	+0 pp
Air passengers4	19.7 million	2021	–43%
Goods transport performance5	26.8 billion tonnes-km	2020	+14%
Rail share	37%	2020	–6 pp
Persons killed in road traffic	227	2020	–62%
Transport's6 share of CO2 emissions	40%	2019	+4 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, road incl. human-powered mobility, cable cars
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), Road length (STL); FSO, FOCA – Aviation, scheduled and charter flights (AVIA_LC); FEDRO, FSO – Road accidents (SVU); FOEN – Greenhouse gas inventory

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