Transport and Travel in Scotland 2010

Summarises a broad range of transport statistics including road vehicles, traffic, casualties, bus and rail passengers, road and rail freight, air and water transport and personal travel as well as providing some comparisons with GB figures. Further breakdowns of Scottish Household Survey transport data including households' access to cars and bikes, frequency of driving, modes of travel to work and school, use and opinions of public transport and access to services are also presented.


Table S2 Summary of Transport in Scotland - index numbers

Index 2000=100

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Vehicles Licensed
Private and Light Goods 1 100.0 103.6 106.8 109.2 112.0 115.8 117.2 120.1 121.8 122.6 122.7
All Vehicles 1 100.0 103.4 106.5 108.9 111.9 115.7 117.2 120.0 121.8 122.6 122.7
New Registrations 100.0 109.5 117.7 119.1 119.3 113.9 110.2 113.9 97.6 98.0 94.7
Local Bus Services2
Passenger Journeys (boardings)3 100.0 101.7 102.8 104.3 100.7 102.2 105.3 108.7 107.7 102.0 ..
Vehicle Kilometres3 100.0 99.7 101.4 100.0 100.0 103.5 104.9 105.7 98.9 102.7 ..
Passenger Revenue
at latest year's prices3 100.0 94.7 101.3 99.3 139.7 146.8 155.3 158.5 155.7 150.0 ..
Freight Lifted
Road 4 100.0 95.1 97.4 96.8 109.2 104.5 109.6 114.7 103.2 87.9 ..
Rail 2 100.0 116.0 110.5 100.8 136.4 173.6 157.1 137.6 125.6 117.3 ..
Coastwise traffic 100.0 83.4 77.7 79.0 83.0 103.4 83.3 92.3 94.3 80.3 ..
One Port traffic 100.0 123.4 117.5 100.0 86.4 114.3 96.1 118.8 113.6 233.1 ..
Inland waterway traffic 100.0 93.2 81.8 82.2 81.5 83.3 83.0 85.8 99.6 82.5 ..
Pipelines 5 100.0 99.9 99.6 98.4 98.2 98.0 98.8 97.7 98.0 98.0 98.0
Public Road Lengths 6
Trunk (A and M) 100.0 100.0 100.0 98.4 98.4 98.4 97.6 97.6 97.6 97.6 97.6
Other Major (A and M) 100.0 99.9 100.0 100.1 100.1 100.3 100.1 99.6 100.1 100.1 100.1
Minor Roads 100.0 100.4 101.6 101.6 101.6 102.2 102.4 103.1 103.3 103.7 103.9
All Roads 100.0 100.3 101.3 101.2 101.2 101.7 101.8 102.2 102.5 102.8 103.0
Road Traffic
Motorways 100.0 103.0 106.0 108.3 112.8 113.8 119.0 121.7 123.6 122.7 120.3
A roads 100.0 101.2 104.9 106.3 107.7 106.7 109.4 109.1 107.8 108.7 107.1
All roads (incl. B, C, uncl.) 100.0 101.3 105.0 106.3 107.9 108.0 111.5 112.9 112.4 111.8 109.9
Reported Road Accident Casualties
Killed 100.0 106.7 93.3 103.1 94.5 87.7 96.3 86.2 82.8 66.3 63.8
Killed and Serious 100.0 96.5 90.7 84.6 78.9 75.8 75.7 68.5 73.0 64.3 55.7
All (Killed, Serious, Slight) 100.0 97.0 93.9 91.4 90.2 87.2 84.2 79.1 76.0 73.3 64.9
Passenger Rail2,7
ScotRail passenger journeys7 100.0 96.2 90.9 91.0 101.4 109.9 113.3 117.9 121.0 121.8 124.0
Rail journeys in/from Scotland8 100.0 99.7 94.7 102.0 112.6 120.6 122.7 135.4 130.1 131.5 ..
Passenger receipts (£2009 mill) 100.0 103.1 101.1 106.4 112.8 113.1 116.5 132.7 138.0 145.5 ..
Air Transport
Terminal Passengers 100.0 107.7 117.8 125.6 134.4 141.7 145.6 149.7 145.0 134.0 124.5
Transport Movements 100.0 108.1 108.7 110.2 115.6 122.6 126.1 128.4 125.1 114.8 106.3
Freight 100.0 97.1 97.3 102.5 104.0 99.9 104.4 82.1 61.1 61.2 55.7
Ferries (selected services 9 )
Passengers 100.0 100.2 101.3 108.1 111.8 112.8 113.7 113.6 107.7 112.1 110.9
Vehicles 100.0 103.4 106.0 107.6 114.3 116.5 117.2 120.9 117.6 123.4 120.2

1 DfT has revised the figures for the light goods and goods body types back to 2001. DfT does not have the underlying data to revise earlier years' figures.

2 Financial years

3 The DfT have revised figures from 2004/05 onwards as a result of methodological improvements. Figures prior to this period are not directly comparable.
See Chapter 2 for more detail.

4 Freight lifted in Scotland by UK-registered hauliers, regardless of whether the destination is in Scotland, elsewhere in the UK or outwith the UK.
The figures for 2004 onwards are not compatible with those for earlier years due to changes in methodology and processing system for the survey.

5 The estimated amounts of crude oil and products carried by pipelines over 50km in length. 2010 figure has been estimated.

6 Data is provisional. Some 2009 figures have been used to calculate 2010 road lengths where this information is not available for certain local authorities.

7 ScotRail introduced a new methodology which better estimates Strathclyde Zonecard journeys from 2009/10. Figures from 2003/04 onwards
present the impact of this on previously reported data to provide a more meaningful year on year comparison. Note that this has no impact on actual
journeys undertaken. Further detail on this can be found from paragraphs 4.3 onwards.

8 The Office of Rail Regulation ( ORR) produce total passenger figures. These are not adjusted to reflect ScotRail's revised methdology and are therefore
not comparable with ScotRail figures.

9 Those services for which figures are (at least) available back to 1975: Caledonian MacBrayne, P&O Scottish Ferries / NorthLink Orkney & Shetland, and Orkney Ferries.

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