about transport

Central government invests more than $1.6 billion in land transport each year, mostly through the National Land Transport Fund. Regional and territorial authorities invest a further $400 million, mainly funded from rates.
Expenditure on transport is 16 percent of the total household expenditure.
10,700 kilometres of the land transport network are state highways, which carry 46 percent of all New Zealand traffic. There are 82,000 kilometres of local roads.
Motorways account for 0.4 percent of the total network length and carry nine percent of New Zealand's traffic.
The railway network extends over 3,898 kilometres.
There are 13 commercial ports.
There are 27 airports. Seven of these are international.
Each year billions of dollars are spent on transport and tens of thousands of people are employed in the provision of transport services.

Source: New Zealand Transport Strategy December 2002

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