16-2  Basic Conditions of Transport
Item	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Length of Transport Routes                   (10 000 km)
Railways in Operation	7.19	7.30	7.44	7.54	7.71
Highways	176.52	180.98	187.07	334.52	345.70
Expressway	2.51	2.97	3.43	4.10	4.53
Navigable Inland Waterways	12.16	12.40	12.33	12.33	12.34
Total Civil Aviation Routes	163.77	174.95	204.94	199.85	211.35
Petroleum and Gas Pipelines	2.98	3.26	3.82	4.40	4.82
Total Passenger Traffic                  (10 000 persons)	1608150	1587497	1767453	1847018	2024157.641
Railways	105606	97260	111764	115583	125656
Highways	1475257	1464335	1624526	1697381	1860487
Waterways	18693	17142	19040	20227	22047
Civil Aviation	8594	8759	12123	13827	15968
Total Passenger-Kilometers (100 million passenger-km)	14125.7	13810.5	16309.1	17466.7	19197.2
Railways	4969.4	4788.6	5712.2	6062.0	6622.1
Highways	7805.8	7695.6	8748.4	9292.1	10130.8
Waterways	81.8	63.1	66.3	67.8	73.6
Civil Aviation	1268.7	1263.2	1782.3	2044.9	2370.7
Total Freight Traffic                           (10 000 tons)	1483446	1561422	1706412	1862066	2037892
Railways	204955	221178	249017	269296	288224
Highways	1116324	1159957	1244990	1341778	1466347
Waterways	141832	158070	187394	219648	248703
Civil Aviation	202.1	219.0	276.7	306.7	349.4
Petroleum and Gas Pipelines	20133	21997	24734	31037	34269
Total Freight Ton-kilometers (100 million ton-km)	50686	53859	69445	80258	88952
Railways	15658	17247	19289	20726	21954
Highways	6782	7099	7841	8693	9754
Waterways	27511	28716	41429	49672	55486
Civil Aviation	51.6	57.9	71.8	78.9	94.3
Petroleum and Gas Pipelines	683	739	815	1088	1664
Possession of Civil Motor Vehicles   (10 000 units)	2053.17	2382.93	2693.71	3159.66	3697.35
Private Vehicles	968.98	1219.23	1481.66	1848.07	2333.32
Possession of Other Motor Vehicles (10 000 units)	6174.09	7108.90	7785.69	8595.42	8797.67
Possession of Civil Transport Vessels            (unit)	202977	204270	210700	207294	194360
Motor Vessels	165936	163813	166854	165900	157805
Barges	37041	40457	43846	41394	36555
Possession of Private Transport Vessels	115108	114297	115503	95838	70292
Motor Vessels	105697	97837	91188	83380	62839
Barges	9411	16460	24315	12458	7453
Volume of Freight Handled in Major Coastal Ports	166628	201126	246074	292777	342191
(10 000 tons)
a) Length of highways include the village road, the data are not comparable with the previous years. The same
applies to the following two tables.