Transport in Uzbekistan

As of March 2017, the total length of Uzbekistan's main railway network is , of which is electrified. Trams Uzbekistan has one town tramway system, which is located in Samarkand. The modern, electrified system opened its first line in 2017, and is the first system to operate in Samarkand since the Soviet-era system was disestablished in 1973. Metro lines The Tashkent Metro was the only such line in Central Asia, until the opening of the Almaty Metro. ==Highways==

As of 2005, Uzbekistan had of roads, about of which were paved. The road infrastructure is deteriorating, particularly outside of Tashkent. No significant highway projects were underway in 2006. In the early 2000s, U.S. engineers improved some roads around the port of Termez to facilitate movement of humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan. Uzbekistan is a member country of the United Nations’ Asian Highway Network, and several national roads are designated as part of the network. The M37 Highway starts from Samarkand, reaching west to the Turkmen border, via Navoiy and Bukhara. The A373 Highway starts from Tashkent, going east through Kokand of Fergana Region, and ends at the Kyrgyz border. In September 2019, The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank proposed the Bukhara Road Network Improvement Project to improve the multiple assets of cross-border roads in Bukhara and the road networks in Karakalpakstan and Khorezm regions. The project finances were approved in June of 2020 and has been estimated to take 214.7 million USD. Highway classification The highways in Uzbekistan are divided into three groups based on the level of their significance whose names differ by a prefix on their code. On July 2024, in a cabinet ruling, the Soviet-era highway numbers were retained for "roads of international significance", but the road numbering was overhauled for "roads of state significance" and "roads of local significance". This superseded and annulled an earlier cabinet ruling from August 2010, which affirmed and documented the same 3 levels of roadway, but retaining the codes from the Soviet era. Below are the "highways of international significance", with a prefix "M" or "A", inheritted from the Soviet road network. The total length of these roads is 3,833 km. The next level of roadways in Uzbekistan are "roads of state significance" (), their codes consisting of 3 digints, and being designated with a prefix "D" (for davlat, meaning "state"). These roads are designated from D001 to D240, with branches and variants being labelled using minuscule latin letters, e.g. "D025e" (862nd km of M39 — Chinoz). The total length of these roads is 14,316 km. The next level of roadways are "roads of local significance", numbered at a region (viloyat) level. For these types of roads, their codes consist of 3 digits, and they're designated with a prefix "##V" (a two digit number designating the region, same codes as those for Uzbek license plates, followed by "V" for viloyat). For example "70V001" is located in Qashqadaryo Region, and designates Qashqadaryo Ring Road. (license plates of Qashqadaryo Region have codes 70 to 74). Branches and variants are also labelled using minuscule latin letters, e.g. "70V078a" (3rd km of D148 — Shahrisabz). The total length of these roads is 24,222 km. ==Ports and waterways==

Double landlocked Uzbekistan has no seaports. Its main river port is Termez on the Amu Darya river. Although Termez lacks modern facilities and has a shortage of spare parts, activity there has increased as conditions in neighboring Afghanistan have stabilized. Termez has been an important transfer point for humanitarian supplies entering Afghanistan. Uzbekistan has of inland waterways. Since the mid-1990s, commercial travel on Uzbekistan's portion of the Amu Darya has been reduced because of low water levels. ==Pipelines==

As of 2010, Uzbekistan had of natural gas pipelines, of oil pipelines, and of pipelines for refined products. ==Airports==

As of 2012, Uzbekistan has 53 airports. 33 of them have paved runways, six of which had runways longer than . The largest of them, Tashkent International Airport, is linked with European and Middle Eastern cities by direct flights of Aeroflot, Lufthansa, and Turkish Airlines. The national airline, Uzbek Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airlines), flies mainly within the former Soviet Union. In August 2010, Hanjin Group, the parent of Korean Airlines, opened a new cargo terminal at Navoi, which will become a cargo hub with regular Incheon-Navoi-Milan flights. ==See also==