15-2 Basic Conditions of Transport
Item	1996	1997	1998
				1999	2000
Length of Transport Routes (10 000 km)
National Railways in Operation	5.67	5.76	5.76	5.79	5.87
Electrified Railways	1.01	1.20	1.30	1.40	1.49
Highways	118.58	122.64	127.85	135.17	140.27
Navigable Inland Waterways	11.08	10.98	11.03	11.65	11.93
Total Civil Aviation Routes	116.65	142.50	150.58	152.22	150.29
International Routes	38.63	50.44	50.44	52.33	50.84
Petroleum and Gas Pipelines	1.93	2.04	2.31	2.49	2.47
Total Passenger Traffic (10 000 persons)	1245356	1326094	1378717	1394413	1478573
Railways	94796	93308	95085	100164	105073
National Railways	93550	91919	92991	97725	101847
Local Railways	612	659	629	528	519
National and Local Railways	634	730	1465	1911	2707
Highways	1122110	1204583	1257332	1269004	1347392
Waterways	22895	22573	20545	19151	19386
Civil Aviation	5555	5630	5755	6094	6722
Total Passenger-Kilometers (100 million passenger-km)	9164.8	10055.5	10636.7	11299.7	12261.0
Railways	3347.6	3584.9	3773.4	4135.9	4532.6
National Railways	3322.0	3543.5	3691.0	4046.3	4414.7
Local Railways	3.4	4.7	5.0	4.4	4.6
National and Local Railways	22.2	36.6	77.4	85.3	113.3
Highways	4908.8	5541.4	5942.8	6199.2	6657.4
Waterways	160.6	155.7	120.3	107.3	100.5
Civil Aviation	747.8	773.5	800.2	857.3	970.5
Total Freight Traffic (10 000 tons)	1298312	1278087	1267200	1292650	1358124
Railways	170915	172019	164082	167196	178023
National Railways	161678	161880	153208	156881	165498
Local Railways	7125	7854	8035	7296	8369
National and Local Railways	2112	2285	2839	3019	4156
Highways	983860	976536	976004	990444	1038813
Waterways	127430	113406	109555	114608	122391
Civil Aviation	115.0	124.7	140.1	170.0	196.7
Petroleum and Gas Pipelines	15992	16002	17419	20232	18700
Total Freight Ton-kilometers (100 million ton-km)	36577	38368	38046	40496	44452
Railways	13093	13253	12517	12838	13902
National Railways	12922	13046	12261	12578	13336
Local Railways	49	51	51	38	44
National and Local Railways	122	156	205	223	522
Highways	5011	5272	5483	5724	6129
Waterways	17863	19235	19406	21263	23734
Civil Aviation	24.9	29.1	33.5	42.3	50.3
Petroleum and Gas Pipelines	585	579	606	628	636
Number of Civil Motor Vehicles Owned (10 000 units)	1100.08	1219.09	1319.30	1452.94	1608.91
Number of Buses and Cars	488.02	580.56	654.83	740.23	853.73
Number of Trucks	575.03	601.23	627.89	676.95	716.32
Ordinary Trucks	558.16	582.45	609.31	655.74	697.59
Number of Working Motor Vehicles Owned by Highway	28.81	29.89	31.88	501.77	702.82
Departments
Number of Private-owned Motor Vehicles	289.67	358.36	423.65	533.88	625.33
Number of Other Motor Vehicles (10 000 units)	1773.13	2214.83	2770.72	3456.96	4168.06
Number of Civil Transport Vessels (unit)
Motor Vessels	269879	215814	212093	194590	185018
Barges	56128	49983	48115	47453	44658
Sailing Boats	4946	6059	3368
Number of Private-owned Transport Vessels (unit)
Motor Vessels	157370	147415	127130	113359	128654
Barges	6533	9944	7290	7262	13463
Sailing Boats	4556	3217	2934
Volume of Freight Handled in Major Coastal Ports	85152	90822	92237	105162	125603
(10 000 tons)
a) The statistical coverage of number of working motor vehicles owned by highway departments extended to the working motor vehicles of all society
in 1999, and the motor vehicle of all society (including working or non-working) in 2000.