The transport performance generated on Swiss roads in 2024 totalled 16.5 billion tonne-kilometres – i.e. 21% more than in 2000. By far the largest part, i.e. 95%, was accounted for by heavy goods transport by lorries and road tractors. In contrast, the contribution of light utility vehicles (especially delivery vans) accounted for only 5%. This is because light vehicles have a small payload.
The share of light utility vehicles in the vehicle-kilometres covered was higher than that of heavy goods vehicles (70% compared with 30% in 2024). This is because there are around eight times as many light goods vehicles as heavy goods vehicles registered in Switzerland. Overall, goods vehicles covered 7.4 billion kilometres in Switzerland in 2024. This is slightly more than one tenth of the kilometre performance of all motorised road transport.
