The purpose of this annual bulletin is to provide basic data on transport and related trends in european countries, canada and the united states of america. The publication is purely statistical in character. The scope of the statistics comprises the rail, road and inland waterway sectors, container transport, goods loaded and unloaded at sea ports, transport by oil pipeline and international goods transport by various modes of transport and commodity group. The data refer to length of networks, number, capacity and power of vehicles and internal and international traffic and transport. in the road sector, data are also given on expenditure on roads. The statistics appearing in this bulletin are compiled from replies to questionnaires supplied by various countries, or from official national and international sources mentioned in annex 2. The statistics are presented in the form of time series. Figures are given for the last two calendar years and 1970 which is the base period used by the united nations.
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