This activity develops quickly. The shoed network, still strongly cantered on Paris, is the subject of modernizations permanently. Passenger traffic remains significant, while the goods traffic decreases with the profit of the road; the launching of the high-speed train (TGV, 1981) contributed to bring the capital closer to the large regional metropolises. The dense road network and maintained well is not always adapted to the number growing of the private cars or to the size of the heavy lorries, in spite of the extension of the network of motorways. The network of the inland waterways, used for the transport of the very heavy matters, is limited to the areas of North and the Northeast; their gauge is often insufficient, and the too many locks. The air traffic develops quickly: Paris has three airports; Air Inter dessert interior lines; Air France and U.T.A. The whole world. And here small more details concerning the surface transport :