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 8.09 meter for each of the 60.30 millions inhabitants of the country. Italy hereby ranks 66th in a worldwide comparison.With a length of 0.33 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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Italy | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 487,700 km | 8,088.24 km | 1,618.44 m |
Railroads | 20,200 km | 334.71 km | 66.97 m |
Waterways | 2,400 km | 39.80 km | 7.96 m |
Commercial harbors | 1,353 | 22.44 | 0.004 |
Airports | 129 | 2.14 | 0.428 |
Europe | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 6,708,300 km | 11,141.60 km | 1,111.61 m |
Railroads | 273,500 km | 454.22 km | 45.32 m |
Waterways | 53,100 km | 88.25 km | 8.81 m |
Commercial harbors | 15,036 | 24.97 | 0.002 |
Airports | 3,737 | 6.21 | 0.001 |