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70

Road deaths for the current year to date

Updated: 21 March 2023 at 9:30 am

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72,115

Total electric motor vehicles in the vehicle fleet

Updated: 20 March 2023 at 10:39 am

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18.40M

tonnes was transported annually on the NZ rail network

46.30b

Vehicle kilometres travelled (Calendar year 2020)

Calendar year 2020

38%

of New Zealanders used public transport in the last year

26.90km

Average daily travel (Calendar year 2018)

19.70%

GHG emissions that are transport-related (Calendar year 2019)

$4.60b

Total Expenditure on land transport (Financial year 2018/2019)