This publication provides statistics on transport and related trends in most European countries, Canada, and the United States. The report is organised as follows: general statistics (population, area of country, gross domestic product, relative importance of principal modes of inland passenger transport, relative importance of principal modes of inland freight transport, international goods transport, and energy consumption by transport); rail transport statistics; road transport statistics; inland waterway transport statistics; international rivers transport statistics; sea ports transport statistics; combined transport statistics; oil pipeline transport statistics; and international goods transport by various modes of transport and commodity group. Appendices contain definitions; sources of information and coverage of statistics; and list of publications from which monthly and/or quarterly transport statistics can be obtained. (Author/publisher)
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