Road Length by Category (April 1, 2016)

Category	Unit: km
Motorways	8,776
Highways, Main or National Roads	51,796
Secondary or Regional Roads	96,040
Other Roads	196,216
Total	349,828

・ Roads less than 5.5m in width have been excluded from the statistics.

(Source: Road Statistics Annual Report [Douro Toukei Nenpo] 2017, Road Bureau, MLIT)

vehicular Traffic Volume (2016)

Vehicle type	Unit: million vehicle-kilometers/year
Passenger cars	525,470
Buses & Motor coaches	5,916
Vans, pick-ups, lorries, road tractors	198,381
Total	729,768

・ Source: Transport-related Statistics Data [Kotsu Kanren Toukei Shiryoshu], Policy Bureau, MLIT

Freight Transport（2016）

Modes	Unit: million ton-km/year
Road	212,034
Rail	21,654
Inland Waterway	180,381
Total	413,680

Passengers Transport（2016）

Modes	Unit: million passenger-km/year
Road, public transport	63,737
Road, private transport	821,360
Rail	431,799
Total	1,316,896

・ Source: Transport-related Statistics Data [Kotsu Kanren Toukei Shiryoshu], Policy Bureau, MLIT

Vehicles in Use (Mar. 31, 2016)

Vehicle type	Unit: vehicles
Passenger cars	61,253,300
Buses & Motor coaches	232,793
Vans, pick-ups, lorries, road tractors	16,004,870
Total	77,490,963
(Reference) Motorcycles & Mopeds	3,602,689

(Source: Automobile Inspection & Registration Information Association website)

Road Accidents (2016)

	Unit: accidents, or persons
Number of Injury Accidents	499,201
Number of Persons Injured	618,853
Number of Persons Killed	3,904

(Source: Traffic Accidents Situation, and Number of Fatalities within 30 days from the Time of Accident, National Police Agency)

Road Expenditure（2015）

	Unit: million yen
Gross investment	3,677,549
Maintenance expenditures	1,820,704
Total	5,498,253

・ Expenditures for toll roads are excluded.

(Source: Road Statistics Annual Report [Douro Toukei Nenpo] 2012, Road Bureau, MLIT)

*MLIT: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism