Transport and infrastructure in Switzerland

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Switzerland with the average of all countries in Europa. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 71,464 km. Theoretically, this is 8.44 meter for each of the 8 millions inhabitants of the country. Switzerland hereby ranks 61st in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.67 meters of railway tracks per person Switzerland come 21st worldwide.

The given length of waterways and number of harbours are only refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. There is no direct access to the open sea in Switzerland.

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