Transportation

Highways

Total: 71,011 km

The Swiss road network is funded by road tolls and vehicle taxes. The Swiss motorway system requires the purchase of a road tax disc – which costs 40 Swiss francs – for one calendar year in order to use its roadways, for both passenger cars and trucks. The Swiss motorway network has a total length of 1,638 km (as of 2000) and has also – with an area of 41,290 km² – one of the highest motorway densities in the world.

Waterways

65 km

Airports

66

Railways

Total: 4,511 km