15-2    Basic Conditions of Transport
Item	1998
		1999	2000	2001
Length of Transport Routes      (10 000 km)
Railways in Operation	6.64	6.74	6.87	7.01
National Electrified Railways	1.30	1.40	1.49	1.69
Highways	127.85	135.17	140.27	169.80
Expressway	0.87	1.16	1.63	1.94
Navigable Inland Waterways	11.03	11.65	11.93	12.15
Total Civil Aviation Routes	150.58	152.22	150.29	155.36
International Routes	50.44	52.33	50.84	51.69
Petroleum and Gas Pipelines	2.31	2.49	2.47	2.76
Total Passenger Traffic         (10 000 persons)	1378717	1394413	1478573	1534122
Railways	95085	100164	105073	105155
National Railways	92991	97725	101847	101680
Local Railways	629	528	519	558
Joint-venture Railways	1465	1911	2707	2917
Highways	1257332	1269004	1347392	1402798
Waterways	20545	19151	19386	18645
Civil Aviation	5755	6094	6722	7524
Total Passenger-Kilometers (100 million passenger-km)	10636.7	11299.7	12261.0	13155.1
Railways	3773.4	4135.9	4532.6	4766.8
National Railways	3691.0	4046.3	4414.7	4636.6
Local Railways	5.0	4.4	4.6	5.2
Joint-venture Railways	77.4	85.3	113.3	125.1
Highways	5942.8	6199.2	6657.4	7207.1
Waterways	120.3	107.3	100.5	89.9
Civil Aviation	800.2	857.3	970.5	1091.4
Total Freight Traffic              (10 000 tons)	1267200	1292650	1358124	1401177
Railways	164082	167196	178023	192580
National Railways	153208	156881	165498	178592
Local Railways	8035	7296	8369	9542
Joint-venture Railways	2839	3019	4156	4446
Highways	976004	990444	1038813	1056312
Waterways	109555	114608	122391	132675
Civil Aviation	140.1	170.0	196.7	171.0
Petroleum and Gas Pipelines	17419	20232	18700	19439
Total Freight Ton-kilometers (100 million ton-km)	38046	40496	44212	47591
Railways	12517	12838	13663	14575
National Railways	12261	12578	13336	14250
Local Railways	51	38	44	55
Joint-venture Railways	205	223	283	270
Highways	5483	5724	6129	6330
Waterways	19406	21263	23734	25989
Civil Aviation	33.5	42.3	50.3	43.7
Petroleum and Gas Pipelines	606	628	636	653
Number of Civil Motor Vehicles Owned (10 000 units)	1319.30	1452.94	1608.91	1802.04
Number of Buses and Cars	654.83	740.23	853.73	993.96
Number of Trucks	627.89	676.95	716.32	765.24
Ordinary Trucks	609.31	655.74	697.59	740.98
Number of Working Motor Vehicles Owned by	31.88	501.77	702.82	764.39
Highway Departments
Number of Private-owned Motor Vehicles	423.65	533.88	625.33	770.78
Number of Other Motor Vehicles    (10 000 units)	2770.72	3456.96	4168.06	4724.05
Number of Civil Transport Vessels         (unit)
Motor Vessels	212093	194590	185018	169329
Barges	48115	47453	44658	41457
Number of Private-owned Transport Vessels (unit)
Motor Vessels	127130	113359	128654	111633
Barges	7290	7262	13463	10088
Volume of Freight Handled in Major Coastal Ports	92237	105162	125603	142634
(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.