Scottish Transport Statistics No 29: 2010 Edition

Has figures on (e.g.) road vehicles, traffic, accidents, bus and rail passengers, road and rail freight, air and water transport, finance, personal travel and international comparisons.


Table SGB3 Comparisons of Scotland and Great Britain (or UK) - relative to the population

Relative to the population

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Vehicles Licensed (all vehicles)

per 100 population

Scotland

42

43

45

46

47

48

50

51

51

52

52

GB

50

51

52

53

54

55

56

57

57

57

57

Public Road Lengths (all roads)

kilometres per 1,000 population

Scotland 1

10.6

10.6

10.7

10.8

10.8

10.7

10.8

10.7

10.7

10.7

10.7

GB

6.8

6.8

6.8

6.8

6.8

6.7

6.6

6.8

6.7

6.6

6.6

Road Traffic

vehicle kilometres per head

Motorway

Scotland

1,018

1,068

1,099

1,134

1,158

1,200

1,207

1,257

1,279

1,293

1,281

GB

1,542

1,547

1,583

1,610

1,608

1,662

1,659

1,689

1,699

1,679

1,658

A Roads

Scotland

4,145

4,055

4,102

4,260

4,316

4,355

4,299

4,390

4,356

4,281

4,299

GB2

3,733

3,706

3,750

3,800

3,820

3,856

3,815

3,842

3,798

3,738

3,706

All roads (incl. B, C and unclassified)

Scotland

7,841

7,814

7,911

8,217

8,312

8,409

8,385

8,622

8,683

8,604

8,513

GB2

8,200

8,176

8,270

8,456

8,477

8,578

8,539

8,624

8,663

8,537

8,400

Road Accident Casualties Killed or Seriously Injured 2

per 1,000 population

Scotland

0.80

0.77

0.74

0.70

0.65

0.61

0.58

0.58

0.52

0.55

0.48

GB

0.75

0.73

0.71

0.68

0.64

0.59

0.55

0.54

0.52

0.48

0.43

Local bus passenger journeys 3,4

per head

Scotland

90

90

92

93

94

91

92

94

97

95

90

GB

77

77

78

79

81

79

80

83

87

88

86

Rail passenger journeys 4,5

per head

Scotland

12.8

12.8

12.8

12.1

13.1

14.4

15.3

15.5

17.1

16.3

..

GB

13.1

13.2

13.2

13.5

13.7

13.9

14.1

16.7

17.2

18.2

0.0

Air terminal passengers

per head

Scotland

3.1

3.3

3.6

3.9

4.2

4.4

4.7

4.8

4.9

4.7

4.3

UK

2.9

3.1

3.1

3.2

3.4

3.6

3.8

3.9

3.9

3.8

3.5

Freight Lifted

tonnes per head

Road

Scotland

30.7

31.3

29.8

30.5

30.3

34.1

32.5

33.9

35.3

31.7

26.8

GB

27.5

27.9

27.6

28.3

28.4

30.0

29.9

30.8

31.6

29.1

23.7

Rail 4

Scotland

1.6

1.6

1.9

1.8

1.6

2.2

2.8

2.5

2.2

2.0

..

GB

1.6

1.7

1.6

1.5

1.5

1.7

1.8

1.8

1.7

1.7

..

Coastwise traffic

Scotland

7.0 |

4.9

4.1

3.8

3.9

4.0

5.0

4.0

4.4

4.5

3.8

UK

1.2 |

1.1

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.1

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

Pipelines 6

Scotland

5.5

5.6

5.6

5.5

5.5

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.3

5.3

5.3

GB

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.0

0.9

1.0

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

1 Provisional
2 The GB figures relate to motor vehicle traffic only, and therefore exclude a small amount of pedal cycle traffic.
3 Bus patronage figures are provisional and should be treated with caution. See note 1 of Table S1.
4 Financial Year
5 Rail patronage trend presented here does not incorporate Scotrail's revised methodology. See notes to Table S1.
6 Pipeline figures for 2009 are estimated.

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