Transport volume on Austrian roads 2016 increased by 5.7%
(World News Austria)

Press release: 11.644-204/17 Vienna, 2017-10-19 - In 2016, the transport volumecarried out by Austrian and foreign road freight vehicles on Austrian roads amounted to 488.0 million tonnes, according to calculations by Statistics Austria. Therefore, it increased by 5.7% compared to 2015 (461.5 million tonnes). With 38.5 billion domestic tonne-kilometres, the transport performancerose by 3.1% in the reference year (2015: 37.4 billion tonne-kilometres). Compared to the previous year, the transport volumeincreased in all modes of transport in 2016. National transport, which accounted with 355.4 million tonnes for the main part of the transport volume, registered the highest growth with 7.2%....