The length of motorways in Romania increased by 140 kilometres (km) in 2024, and the length of the public road network totalled 86,847 km, of which 17,994 km (20.7%) were national roads, 35,091 km (40.4%) were county roads and 33,762 km (38.9%) were communal roads, according to data published on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

By type of covering, 51.5% (44,752 km) of the public roads were modernised roads (94% modernised using heavy and medium-grade asphalt), 23.7% (20,563 km) roads with light road surfaces and 24.8% (21,532 km) gravel and dirt roads.

As regards the condition of public roads, 25.7% of the length of the modernised roads and 37.7% of the length of roads with light road surfaces had exceeded their service life.

Of the length of national roads, 6,189 km (34.4%) were international roads, 1,137 km (6.3%) motorways and 121 km (0.7%) expressways, and in terms of the number of lanes, 2,323 km (12.9%) were 4-lanes, 314 km (1.7%) were 3-lanes and 39 km (0.2%) were 6-lanes.

The length of the county roads included 52.7% of modernised roads and 33.3% of the communal roads were paved roads.

As of December 31, 2024, the length of public railway lines in operation amounted to 10,611 km, of which 10,515 km (99.1%) were standard gauge railways, 91 km (0.9%) were broad gauge railways and 5 km were narrow gauge railways.

Railway density was 44.5 per 1,000 square km of land. The highest densities by development regions were recorded in the Bucharest-Ilfov region (206.3 per 1,000), Vest (60 per 1,000), Nord-Vest (47.8 per 1,000) and Sud-Muntenia (43.8 per 1,000).

On the same date, the length of the main railways was 5,961 km, representing 56.2% of the simple length of the railway lines in operation.

AGERPRES