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 Europe. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 71,557 km. Theoretically, this is 8.35 meter for each of the 8.6 millions inhabitants of the country. Switzerland hereby ranks 64th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.66 meters of railway tracks per person Switzerland come 24th 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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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Switzerland
Roadways	71,600 km	8,345.00 km	1,733.02 m
Railroads	5,700 km	663.57 km	137.80 m
Waterways	1,292 km	150.67 km	31.29 m
Commercial harbors	32	3.73	0.001
Airports	63	7.35	1.526

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Europe
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

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