Highways and subways:
The city has more than 20,000 km of highways with the nation’s top highway density of over 60 km per 100 square kilometers.
Twelve state highways radiate from the city to other major cities such as Shenyang, Tianjin, Harbin, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Nanjing, Fuzhou and Kunming. The city has six expressways, namely, the Badaling, Capital Airport, Beijing-Shenyang, Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu, Beijing-Shijiazhuang and Beijing-Zhangjiakou expressways.
The city has an urban highway mileage of 4,125.8 km with a total road surface of 4,921.4 square meters. It has two metro lines with a combined mileage of 54 km.
Airport:
The city’s Capital International Airport has opened over 200 domestic and international air routes to reach most Chinese cities as well as major cities in other countries and regions. The airport handled some 12.455 million person-times in 2003, a drop of 2.5 percent from the preceding year. But its volume of freight transportation increased by 2 percent to reach 467,000 tons.
