Scottish Transport Statistics No 29: 2010 Edition
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Table 5.2 Traffic on major roads (by class / type) and minor roads (by type) by vehicle type, 2009
Cars |
Two wheeled motor vehicles |
Buses |
Light goods vehicles |
Heavy goods vehicles |
All motor vehicles |
Pedal cycles |
All vehicle traffic |
Percent of all roads |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
million vehicle kilometres |
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Major roads (M and A) |
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Motorways |
4,954 |
25 |
52 |
837 |
765 |
6,633 |
0 |
6,633 |
15.0 |
Trunk A roads - urban 1 |
746 |
4 |
7 |
129 |
65 |
951 |
1 |
952 |
2.2 |
Trunk A roads - rural 1 |
6,866 |
72 |
85 |
1,147 |
784 |
8,955 |
6 |
8,960 |
20.3 |
Non-trunk A roads - urban 1 |
3,747 |
21 |
86 |
503 |
153 |
4,510 |
21 |
4,530 |
10.2 |
Non-trunk A roads - rural 1 |
6,184 |
74 |
99 |
1,068 |
443 |
7,868 |
17 |
7,885 |
17.8 |
All major roads |
22,497 |
196 |
329 |
3,684 |
2,210 |
28,917 |
45 |
28,960 |
65.5 |
Minor roads (B, C and unclassified) |
|||||||||
Urban roads 1 |
6,662 |
66 |
216 |
1,024 |
132 |
8,100 |
125 |
8,225 |
18.6 |
Rural roads 1 |
5,233 |
59 |
90 |
1,319 |
215 |
6,916 |
117 |
7,033 |
15.9 |
All minor roads |
11,895 |
125 |
306 |
2,343 |
347 |
15,016 |
242 |
15,258 |
34.5 |
All roads |
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Motorways |
4,954 |
25 |
52 |
837 |
765 |
6,633 |
0 |
6,633 |
15.0 |
Urban roads 1 |
11,155 |
92 |
308 |
1,656 |
350 |
13,561 |
147 |
13,708 |
31.0 |
Rural roads 1 |
18,283 |
205 |
275 |
3,534 |
1,442 |
23,738 |
140 |
23,878 |
54.0 |
All roads |
34,391 |
322 |
635 |
6,027 |
2,557 |
43,932 |
287 |
44,219 |
100.0 |
Percentage of all vehicles |
77.8 |
0.7 |
1.4 |
13.6 |
5.8 |
99.4 |
0.6 |
100.0 |
|
Source: Department for Transport - Not National Statistics
1. DfT's classification of urban and rural roads differs from the built up/non-built up classification - see section 3.1.4 of the text.
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