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

 

Europe

  totalper 1 mio
inhabitants		per km2 total per 1 mio
inhabitants		per km2
Roadways 487,700 km8,088.24 km1,618.44 m 6,708,300 km11,141.62 km1,111.61 m
Railroads 20,200 km334.71 km66.97 m 273,500 km454.23 km45.32 m
Waterways 2,400 km39.80 km7.96 m 53,100 km88.25 km8.81 m
Commercial harbors 1,35322.440.004 15,03624.970.002
Airports 1292.140.428 3,7376.210.001