The Transportation industry is essential to personal mobility and a prerequisite for achieving socio-economic progress. The industry is a key component of global production and supply chains, and a primary facilitator of international trade in goods and services. Emerging technologies and stricter environmental regulation are reshaping traditional transportation modes and driving investment in more efficient and sustainable transportation solutions.
Activities associated with the Transportation industry are transportation of passengers and cargo by road, rail, air and water, and the related support activities. Urban mobility, scenic and sightseeing transportation, courier and postal services, and pipeline transportation of oil and gas are also included in this industry.
In Q3 2017, the total passenger traffic, including airlines passenger traffic, highway passenger traffic, railway passenger traffic and waterway passenger traffic, dropped by 5% y/y to 4.7bn, due above all to a decrease in highway passenger traffic, ...
View more detailsChina’s transportation sector is almost entirely run by state-owned corporations, as its development is viewed as a major driver for the country’s economic growth. In the railways subsector, there was extensive construction of new ...
View more detailsHungary is located at the crossroads of four major road, railway and inland waterway corridors that link Eastern, Western and Southern Europe. The country’s transportation sector accounts for around 5.1% of its GDP and close to 7% of total ...
View more detailsThe value added of Thailand’s transportation and communications sector stood at THB 1,030.7bn in 2016, growing 5.5% y/y from 2015. The sector recorded 44,672 transportation and storage enterprises that employed some 1.2 million people, or ...
View more detailsThe transportation and storage sector is one of the important service sectors in the Czech Republic. The sector’s gross value added (GVA) reached CZK 242bn in 2016, accounting for 5.6% of total GVA and 9.3% of GVA from services. The ...
View more detailsChina had 123,993 km of railways at the end of 2016, up by 2.5% y/y. Of these railway lines, 21,741 km were high-speed rail (HSR), making China’s the longest HSR network in the world. In 2016, the railway sector saw stable growth in passenger ...
View more detailsThe travel and tourism sector plays a significant role in Malaysia’s economy, directly contributing 4.7% to Malaysia’s 2016 GDP and accounting for 12% of total employment. Thus, travel and tourism receives considerable attention from the ...
View more detailsChina’s transportation sector is almost entirely run by state-owned corporations, as its development is viewed as a major driver for the country’s economic growth. In the railways subsector, there was extensive construction of new ...
View more detailsWith a population of some 31.9 million, Malaysia is one of the more developed countries, with advanced transportation infrastructures, in the ASEAN region. The sector employed 630,400 people, or 4.45% of total employment in 2016. The transportation ...
View more detailsThe tourism sector of Brazil has significant growth potential thanks to the sector-relevant natural resources of the country, which were recognised as the most abundant in the world in the 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report by the World ...
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