Domestic transport, 2007

The overall transport work increased from 67.5 billion passenger kilometres in 2006 to 69.3 billion in 2007.

Continuous growth in traffic by private cars

Private cars accounted for 53.1 billion passenger kilometres in 2007, an increase of 2.6 per cent compared to 2006. This preliminary figure indicates a somewhat stronger growth in the transport work done in 2007 compared to the period 2000-2006 when the yearly increase in average was barely 1.8 per cent. Transport work by private cars constitutes about 78 per cent of the total passenger kilometres done on Norwegian territory.

While passenger kilometres of private cars increased by 13 per cent from 2000 to 2007, the remaining modes of transport display a jointly increase of 1 per cent for the whole period. The main reason for the weak growth was the decline in traffic by rental cars and by public means of transportation in the period of 2000 - 2003. The decrease in this period was especially comprehensive for all railroad traffic and aviation, while the transport by bus was at status quo.

From 2004 the statistics shows a considerable growth in public transport. This is the reason behind the 10 per cent increase for all other modes of transport, private cars excluded, in the period of 2003-2007, measured in passenger kilometres. In comparison, the corresponding increase for private cars came to 5 per cent in the same period, but this growth was equalized from 2006 to 2007 when both private cars and the remaining passenger transport each experienced an increase of 2.5 per cent, measured in passenger kilometres.

10 per cent increase for both Flytoget and Flåmsbanen

The Norwegian State Railways (NSB AS) is the dominant operator with almost 90 per cent of all domestic travels on the railway track in 2007. This constituted more than 50 million travels and corresponded to an increase of 3 per cent compared to 2006. The number of travels on Flytoget is about one tenth of NSB’s, with almost 5.4 million passengers carried in 2007, an increase of 10 per cent from 2006. Flåmsbanen has also experienced increasing traffic over the last couple of years. The number of travels increased from 2005 to 2006 by 13 per cent followed by an increase of 9 per cent the following year. Almost 583 000 passengers travelled with Flåmsbanen in 2007.

Insignificant difference between sea and road - measured in tonne-kilometres

While the transport for hire or reward and on own account constituted transport work at sea of 15.9 billion tonne-kilometres in 2007, the transport work by road came to 16.3 billion. This equalled an increase of 1 per cent for both modes compared to 2006.

Measured in tonne-kilometres, the biggest single mode of transport is neither the traditional transport by sea nor the transport by road but the transport of gas by pipeline from the North Sea to mainland Norway. This mode of transport came to 18.2 billion tonne-kilometres in 2007.

Both the transport of oil by ship and by pipeline from the Norwegian continental shelf to mainland Norway experienced a continued but even decrease measured in both tonne transported and transport work.

Tables:

• Table 1 Domestic passenger transport, by mode of transport. 1965,1970,1975,1980,1985,1990, 1995, 2000 and 2004-2007
• Table 2 Domestic goods transport, by mode of transport. 1965,1970,1975,1980,1985,1990, 1995, 2000 and 2004-2007