Aviation: established Tibet Airlines Company; 5 existing civil aviation airports including Gonggar, Banda, Mainling, Kunsha, and Shigatse; 8 airlines operating in Tibet, with routes starting from Lhasa to Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi’an, Xining, Shanghai, Lanzhou, Kunming, Hong Kong, and Kathmandu, Nepal, connecting to 33 other cities and 48 international routes. The network of five civil aviation airports includes Lhasa Gonggar Airport as the center with Chamdo Bangda, Nyingchi Mainling, Ngari Kunsha, and Shigatse Peace airports as extension airports.

Railway: Golmud to Lhasa and Lhasa to Shigatse routes already in operation; Lhasa to Nyingchi route currently under construction. Lhasa-Nyingchi route is the newest portion of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway; main line of construction is 403 kilometers, operation length of 436 kilometers, and planned construction period of 77 months.

Public Roads: Current main framework of “three vertical, two horizontal, six channels” with Lhasa at the center, and Shigatse, Lhoka, Nyingchi, Nagchu as the radius, public road network radiating from the three economic regions of central, eastern, and western Tibet public road network has already been formed. At the end of 2014, Tibet had a public road traffic mileage of 75,000 kilometers; second level and above road surface mileage of 8,891 kilometers, covering 12.6 percent. Of 74 counties (districts) in Tibet, 65 are reachable by asphalt roads, covering 88 percent; 690 villages and towns are reachable by public road, a rate of 99.7 percent; 5,408 administrative villages are reachable by public road, a rate of 99.2 percent.

Tibet is constantly improving its large traffic pattern which has already become a comprehensive transportation system.