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Reduction in commercial modes of transport
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2003-09-15T10:00:00.000Z
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Domestic transport, 2002

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Reduction in commercial modes of transport

584 million passengers travelled by railway, suburban railways, urban tramways, scheduled road transport and air in 2002, a decrease of 2.3 per cent or 14 million passengers from 2001. The transport work decreased from 12.1 billion passenger kilometres in 2001 to 11.6 billion in 2001.

The commercial modes of transport had a considerable growth in passenger traffic throughout the 1990s. In the period 1990 - 1999 the total increase of the number of passengers transported was 23 per cent. Measured in passenger kilometres the increase was almost 33 per cent. As a comparison, the increase in the traffic with private cars was 8 per cent for both passengers transported and passenger kilometres in this period.

Number of passengers and passenger-kilometres
  Passengers Passenger-km
  1990 1999 2000 2001 2002 1990 1999 2000 2001 2002
Railway  115  159  158  159  153 2 430 3 416 3 353 3 272 2 989
Suburban railways and urban tramways 81  105  101  105  103  419  507  496  508  498
Scheduled road transport  278  316  320  324  319 3 890 4 177 4 141 4 105 4 125
Air transport 7 10 10 10 9 2 665 4 362 4 415 4 257 4 030
Private cars     3 094     3 342     3 345     3 399     3 493     42 696     46 121     46 832     47 925     49 247

During the last couple of years traffic by commercial modes of transport has not only stagnated but also even somewhat declined. This is especially true for traffic by rail and air.

Traffic by private cars accelerates

Though the moderate relative increase in traffic by private cars in the 1990s compared with the growth of commercial modes of transport, private cars were indeed dominating. In 1999 private cars constituted 74.4 per cent of the passenger kilometres. In 2002 this portion had increased to 76.4 per cent. Private cars experienced an increase of 3.1 billion passenger kilometres from 1999 to 2002, or almost 7 per cent. The increase from 2001 to 2002 was 3 per cent.

40 kilometres daily

The average Norwegian travelled 39.9 kilometres per day in 2002. On average we drove almost 30 kilometres by private car each day, an increase of 9.5 kilometres since 1980. The table shows that the y average daily length of a journey by rail and maritime transport has not changed much since 1946. There was, however, a significant decrease of transport by rail from 2001 to 2002, from 2 to 1.8 passenger kilometres daily

Number of passenger kilometres per inhabitants per day
  Total Private cars Other passenger tranport         Air Railway1 Water transport
1946             4.05 0.93 0.88 0.00 1.83 0.40
1952 5.40 1.31 2.04 0.01 1.86 0.45
1960 8.94 3.65 3.51 0.08 1.99 0.49
1965 12.84 7.43 3.93 0.25 1.78 0.50
1970 18.31 12.61 3.44 0.45 1.37 0.45
1975 24.14 17.99 3.45 0.70 1.55 0.45
1980 27.30 20.41 3.61 0.99 1.84 0.44
1985 31.44 24.34 3.57 1.42 1.69 0.42
1990 34.80 27.58 3.49 1.72 1.57 0.45
1995 35.28 27.44 3.49 2.24 1.68 0.43
1996 39.75 28.27 3.81 2.46 1.74 0.46
1997 236.89 227.92 4.15 2.51 1.83 0.49
1998 237.74 28.30 24.41 2.62 1.89 0.51
1999 237.90 28.11 24.49 2.68 22.10 0.53
2000 238.42 228.57 24.60 2.70 22.04 0.52
2001 238.60 229.08 24.47 22.58 21.99 0.51
2002 39.91 29.73 4.42 2.43 1.80 0.52
1  Including suburban railways and urban tramways.
2  Revised since the last release.

The average length of transport of goods is increasing

254 million tonnes were transported by lorry in 2002, a decrease of 1.3 and 4.2 per cent from 2001 and 1999 respectively. As from 1999 the statistics show a slight, but gradual decreaseof the transport volume of goods by lorry. The transport work, however, has gradually increased in recent years and indicated a peak in 2002 with 13.6 billion tonnes kilometres. Thus, the average distance per tonnes carried was increasing and came to 54 kilometres in 2002 compared with 48 kilometres in 1999.

The total transport on the mainland comprised 340 million tonnes in 2002, an insignificant decrease from 2001.

Oil and gas from the continental shelf

The total transport from the continental shelf to the Norwegian mainland comprised 102 million tonnes and 27 billion tonne-kilometres in 2002. These transports came to one third and 90 per cent of the total mainland transport measured in tonnes and tonnes-kilometres respectively. While the increase in tonnes transported from 2001 was 4.1 per cent, the transport work increased by 10.8 per cent. Especially the gas transport by pipeline grew and thus strongly contributed to the increase in the average distance.

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