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Deceleration in passenger transport across the various modes; Broadband Internet access traffic more than doubled in 3 years
Transport and Communication Statistics
Deceleration in passenger transport across the various modes; Broadband Internet access traffic more than doubled in 3 years - 2018
08 November 2019

Summary

Despite the increase in the number of transported passengers, there was a slowdown across the several modes: air transport +6.8% (+16.5% in 2017), railway transport +3.9% (+6.0% in 2017), underground +4.3% (+5.1% in 2017) and inland waterways transport +3.4% (+5.5% in 2017).
Goods transport showed positive developments in air (+5.2%, +21.0% in 2017) and road transport (+0.1%, +6.1% in 2017), and decreases in maritime mode (-3.2%, +2.2% in 2017) and on the railway (-0.5%, +2.0% in 2017).
Traffic volume associated with broadband Internet access (fixed and mobile accesses) continued to grow quite significantly: +48.0%, after +34.1% in 2017 and +24.6% in 2016.

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