Austrian road freight fell to 549.4 million tonnes in 2025
Statistics Austria reported a 0.6% annual decline in volume, alongside lower transport performance.
Event / data period: 2025
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Goods carried by road totalled 549.4 million tonnes in 2025, down 0.6% from 2024, according to annual results published by Statistics Austria on October 12. The agency said this was the lowest volume since 2016.
Transport performance fell 0.9% to 52.9 billion tonne-kilometres. The agency’s table separates domestic transport, receipts, dispatches and transit from the total tonnage; tonnes measure freight mass, while tonne-kilometres also account for distance.
Data
Road freight, 2025
Statistics Austria annual estimates.
| Total goods volume | 549402474 | -0.6 |
| Domestic transport | 340507271 | — |
| Receipts | 68173798 | — |
| Dispatches | 64298042 | — |
| Transit | 76423362 | — |
Methodology
Volume is measured in tonnes and transport performance in tonne-kilometres; the indicators are distinct and must not be added. The secondary/model-based series weights Statistics Austria, Eurostat and CAFT sources with ASFINAG toll data.
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