1997年我国公路客运量114亿人次,比1996年增长2%。而铁路客运量仍呈下降势头。这表明,公路客运在客运市场“公”“铁”之争中继续领先。去年全国公路货运量为99亿吨,比1996年增长0.6%。而全国铁路去年共发送旅客9.17亿人次,比1996年的9.42亿人次仍有所下降,货物发送量为16.18亿吨,与1996年基本持平。由于一些高等级公路多是沿着铁路 In 1997, the number of road passenger transport in our country was 11.4 billion, an increase of 2% over 1996. However, the passenger volume of railways still shows a declining trend. This shows that the road passenger transport continues to lead the passenger transport market in the race for “public” and “iron”. Last year, the country’s road freight volume was 9.9 billion tons, up 0.6% over 1996. The national railway last year sent a total of 917 million passengers, down from 942 million in 1996, sending 1.1618 billion tons of cargo, basically the same as in 1996. Because some high-grade highways are mostly along the railway