This section contains data relating to volumes of freight and passenger transportation, to the length of transport lines, to traffic accidents.

Transport as a kind of economic activity is divided into transport for general and non-general purposes.

Public (general purposes) transport is the transport which serves the needs of all industries and of population in transportation of freight and passengers, transferring various goods from manufacturers to customers, and rendering accessible transport services to the population. Public transportation comprises also commercial (payable) transport services for passengers and freight.

Transportation carried out by a commercial organisation is considered as public shipment in case it follows from the law, any other legal statute that this organisation is endowed with the obligation to carry cargo, passengers and luggage at the request of any individual or a legal entity.

Contract providing for general-purpose transport services is a kind of public agreement.

Non-general purposes transport (departmental) is used, as a rule, to ship freight and carry employees of own organisation.

Volume of freight carried by all mode of public transport, excluding motor transport is shown by registered departure time. As for motor transport, freight shipments are registered upon their arrival.

Freight turnover is the volume of transport work for freight transportation and its unit is expressed in tonne-kilometers. It is calculated as a sum produced by multiplying the weight of shipped of freight in tons by the length of its shipping in kilometres (miles).

Freight turnover is classified by mode of transport, communications, width of track, kind of traffic, kind of freights and other features.

Information on freight transportation and freight turnover of motor transport is given taking into account the activity of small businesses.

Data on passenger traffic and passenger turnover by railway transport are given from 2000 with due regard for the assessment of number of passenger who entitled to free-of-charge services for surburb communication and changes in the system for accounting of the volume of transportation of railway's emploeeys.

Freight and passengers turnover of air transport are determined only for the shipments carried out by transport aviation, i.e. excluding air flights used by organisations of other kinds economic activities.

Data on air transport are given for regular and non-regular air carrier companies.

Regular air carriers are the air transport organisations which realize commercial flights carrying passengers, freight and mail, as well as performing air works for the needs of branches of economy both on a regular and non-regular basis. Regular shipments include flights conducted according to schedules and for certain payment, or sufficiently frequent flights, which are liable to a certain systematization and are accessible for broad public; as well as additional flights caused by overburdening of regular flights.

Non-regular air carriers are the organisations (irrespective of their institutional, legal and their ownership type) which operate commercial flights carrying freight and passengers as well as doing air work for the needs of organisations and population on a non-regular basis only (charter (ordered) flights, special flights, tourist flights not reflected in regular carriers schedules).

Operational length of general-purpose public railways is the length of railroads measured along the axis of main railroad; and for multi-track railroads measured as the shortest part of the main line between axises of separating points (stations, by-ways, overtaking points) delineating this line.

Motor roads on the territory of the Russian Federation are classified as general-purpose public roads and non-general-purpose public roads.

Public (general-purpose) motor roads are: the federal roads of federal property of the Russian Federation; regional and intermunicipal roads which are the property of constituent entities of the Russian Federation; local roads are the property municipalities.

Non-general-purpose (departmental) motor roads are those of the property fo legal entities.

Main gas pipelines are the pipelines intended for transportation of gas in mass volumes for long distances from the extraction or production areas to gas-distributing stations. The length of gas pipelines is determined by summing up linear lengths of all pipeline sections in single-lane measuring from the inlet header of the head pump station to the inlet header of gas distributing station of destination point and linear lengths of pipe-bends from the linear tap to the inlet header of gas distributing station of the use point.

Main oil pipelines are the pipelines intended for transportation of oil from the extraction areas (from head pumping stations situated on the territoty of given oil field, deposit) to oil refineries, oil stations, rail, river and marine oil filling stations, as well as to branches (pipe-bends) of oil pipelines designed for supplying selected organisations with oil. The length of oil pipelines is determined as the sum of linear lengths of all pipeline sections in single lane measuring, including pipe-bends.

Main oil product pipelines are intended for transportation of oil products from the production areas (from the head or transit delivery, pumping or compressing station) to the points of their consumption (intermediate storehouse, station for distribution and filling of cistern tanks, cistern cars, oil tankers, a settlement,an enterprise). The length is determined similar to the main oil pipelines.

Inland waterways for ships - natural or artificially created federal communication ways equipped with navigate signs or by other means and used for navigation. Operational length of inland waterways in kilometres is determined as a sum of length of rivers, channels, lakes, water basin routes used for shipping and towing. Data before 2001 are given for internal waterways which are served and maintained by the Inland Public Waterway Service.

Inland waterways with guaranteed depths are the waterways where the operating depth of the navigation pass is permanently secured during all navigation period or its part.