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The development of the regional economy, of trade and therefore of prosperity is closely related to the available transport infrastructure. The transport sector ensures the mobility of people as well as the efficient exchange of goods and news so that the importance of geographical distances took more and more a backseat. In this process all sectors of traffic and information are of importance. This data compilation contains information about different aspects of traffic by the composition of selected time series from the Traffic Statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany. The compilation consists of a total of 1034 Time Series, which largely extend the period of the former FRG and of Germany in the borders of the 3rd October 1990 (reunification: Old German federal Länder and the new German Länder). Concerning the stock of motorcars and of railway wagons data could be gathered for the period of the German Empire between 1870 and 1907. Caused by different classifications of the sources used for the data compilation the comparability of the time series may be limited in rare cases. In these cases, it is pointed out in the cell- and column-specific annotations. The focus of the compilation is the functional aspect of traffic. Vehicle stocks, traffic routes and transport services of the transport modes are represented - with the exception of aviation. There are also data tables with information about Germany’s transport budget, the federal traffic expenditures, the investments in the transport system, and to the federal assets of transport facilities. Stocks and registrations of motor vehicles are differentiated by type of vehicle, engine size class, and mode of driving. New car registrations are additionally listed by occupation of the holder. Concerning to the railways companies, the stock of railway wagons, rail cars and railway engines, the number of railway stations, the railroad accesses to industrial companies and level crossings are gathered. For the...