Transport and infrastructure in Italy

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Italy with the average of all countries in Europe. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 487,700 km. Theoretically, this is 8.19 meter for each of the 59.55 millions inhabitants of the country. Italy hereby ranks 65th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.34 meters of railway tracks per person Italy come 49th worldwide.

The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 7,600 km long coastline.

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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Italy
Roadways	487,700 km	8,189.20 km	1,618.44 m
Railroads	20,200 km	338.89 km	66.97 m
Waterways	2,400 km	40.30 km	7.96 m
Commercial harbors	1,310	22.00	0.004
Airports	129	2.17	0.428

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Europe
Roadways	6,708,300 km	11,135.99 km	1,111.61 m
Railroads	273,500 km	454.00 km	45.32 m
Waterways	53,100 km	88.21 km	8.81 m
Commercial harbors	15,358	25.49	0.003
Airports	3,737	6.20	0.001

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