运输量位居世界前位。2015年，全社会完成客运量194.3亿人、旅客周转量30047亿人公里；完成货运量410亿吨、货物周转量173690.6亿吨公里。铁路旅客周转量、货运量居世界第一，货运周转量居世界第二，公路客货运输量及周转量、水路货运量及周转量均居世界第一，民航运输总周转量、旅客周转量、货邮周转量均居世界第二。全国港口完成货物吞吐量和集装箱吞吐量均居世界第一。邮政业年服务用户超过700亿人次，快递年业务量居世界第一，大型网络购物促销“双11”活动单日处理峰值超过1.6亿件。管道货运量达7.1亿吨，周转量达4138.8亿吨公里。

　　运输服务质量全面提升。多式联运、甩挂运输等先进运输组织模式及冷链等专业物流快速发展，集装箱、厢式货车等标准化运载单元加快推广，城乡物流配送信息化、集约化程度明显提升，提高了社会物流运行效率。交通运输安全水平大幅改善，铁路旅客运输总体安全水平居世界前列，2015年道路交通万车事故死亡人数较2005年下降了72.4%，全国运输船舶百万吨港口吞吐量等级以上事故件数平均每年下降5%，民航运输航空百万小时重大事故率10年滚动值为0.018（世界平均水平为0.24）。大力提升客运基本公共服务均等化水平，“公交优先”战略扎实推进，全国公交专用车道达8569公里，快速公交系统（BRT）线路长度达3081公里，定制公交、夜间公交等特色公共交通服务产品的新模式不断丰富，网约出租汽车等新业态快速发展。

China's transport volume leads the world. In 2015 China's passenger transport volume was 19.43 billion persons, and passenger turnover was 3.0 trillion passenger-km (pkm); freight transport volume was 41 billion tons, and freight turnover was 17.37 trillion ton-km (tkm). In terms of railway transport, passenger turnover and freight transport volume ranked first in the world, and freight turnover ranked second. In terms of highway transport, passenger and freight transport volume and passenger and freight turnover ranked first in the world. In terms of waterway transport, freight transport volume and freight turnover also ranked first in the world. In terms of civil aviation transport, total turnover, passenger turnover, and cargo and mail turnover all ranked second in the world. In terms of port transport, cargo throughput and container throughput ranked first in the world. In terms of postal services, the number of customers exceeded 70 billion. In terms of express delivery, business volume ranked first in the world; on November 11, Online Shopping Day, the number of parcels delivered in one day reached the year's peak of 160 million pieces. In terms of pipeline transportation, freight transport volume was 710 million tons and freight turnover was 413.88 billion tkm.

Transport service quality has been improved. Multimodal transport, drop and pull transport and cold chain logistics have developed quickly; the use of standardized transport units such as containers and vans has been promoted; and urban and rural logistics have enhanced IT application and intensified services, thus increasing logistics efficiency. Transport safety has been greatly improved, and China's railway passenger transport safety leads the world. In 2015 the number of death toll per 10,000 vehicle road accidents dropped by 72.4 percent over 2005; the number of accidents of cargo vessels of a million-ton-class throughput and above has decreased by five percent on average annually since 2005; the rolling ten-year accident rate per one million flight hours in civil aviation transport was 0.018 in 2015 (the world's average is 0.24). Equitable basic public services in passenger transport and the strategy of "public transit priority" have been promoted. The length of exclusive bus lanes has reached 8,569 km, and the length of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines 3,081 km. In addition, new and specialized public transport services, such as customized shuttle and night buses, have increased, and new models of transport service including online taxi booking have been developing rapidly.