Sweden: Facts & Stats

TRANSPORTATION

Roads:

Sweden had left-hand traffic (Vänstertrafik in Swedish) from approximately 1736 and continued to do so well into the 20th century. Despite this virtually all cars in Sweden were actually left-hand drive and the neighbouring Nordic countries already drove on the right, leading to mistakes by visitors. The Swedish voters rejected a change to driving on the right in a referendum held in 1955.

Nevertheless, in 1963 the Riksdag passed legislation ordering the switch to right-hand traffic. The changeover took place on a Sunday morning at 5am on September 3, 1967, which was known in Swedish as Dagen H (H-Day), the 'H' standing for Högertrafik or right-hand traffic.

Since Swedish cars were left-hand drive, experts had suggested that changing to driving on the right would reduce accidents, because drivers would have a better view of the road ahead. Indeed, fatal car-to-car and car-to-pedestrian accidents did drop sharply as a result. This was likely due to drivers initially being more careful since accident rates soon returned to nearly the same as earlier.

• total: 210,760 km


• paved: 162,707 km (including 1,428 km of expressways)


• unpaved: 48,053 km (1999)

Motorways

Motorways run through Sweden, Denmark and over the Öresund Bridge to Stockholm, Gothenburg, Uppsala and Uddevalla. The system of motorways is still under construction and a new motorway from Uppsala to Gävle recently opened.

Railroads:

Network

• Total: 12,821 km (includes 3,594 km of privately owned railways)


• standard gauge: 12,821 km of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1?2 in) gauge (7,918 km electrified and 1,152 km double track (1998)


• narrow gauge: 221 km of 891 mm (2 ft 11.1 in) gauge (2001)

Main lines

There used to be six main lines (stambanor), all nationally owned:

• Västra stambanan (Western main line), 453 km, Stockholm-Gothenburg through Katrineholm-Hallsberg-Laxå-Falköping
• Södra stambanan (Southern main line), 381 km, Malmö-Falköping through Nässjö-Jönköping
• Östra stambanan (Eastern main line), 216 km, Nässjö-Katrineholm through Mjölby-Linköping-Norrköping)
• Norra stambanan (Northern main line), 484 km, Stockholm-Ånge through Uppsala-Avesta Krylbo
• Stambanan genom övre Norrland (Main line through upper Norrland), 629 km, Bräcke-Boden through Långsele-Vännäs
• Nordvästra stambanan (Northwestern main line), 209 km, Laxå-Norwegian border through Karlstad-Kil-Charlottenberg

Also these lines have for a period been called main lines:

• Mittbanan (Norrland cross line), about 500 km, Sundsvall-Norwegian border through Ånge-Östersund
• Inlandsbanan, about 1300 km, Kristinehamn-Gällivare through Mora-Östersund

Airports:

• 255 (2000 estimate)

Airports - with paved runways

(Official figures. A great number of wartime airfields exist with various lengths, usually built into roads, and are usually less than 1000 m long)

• total: 147
• over 3,047 m: 3 (Arlanda, Landvetter, Luleå)
• 2,438 to 3,047 m: 11
• 1,524 to 2,437 m: 80
• 914 to 1,523 m: 28
• under 914 m: 25

Airports - with unpaved runways

• total: 108
• 914 to 1,523 m: 5
• under 914 m: 103

Heliports

• 1 (2000 est.) (Every hospital, airport and military base has Helipads.)

List of airports

• Gothenburg City Airport
• Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport
• Luleå Airport
• Malmö-Sturup Airport
• Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
• Stockholm-Bromma Airport
• Stockholm-Skavsta Airport
• Umeå Airport
• Växjö Airport - Smaland Airport

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