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 SGB1 Comparisons of Scotland and Great Britain (or the UK) - numbers

Numbers

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Vehicles Licensed 1 (all vehicles) thousand
Scotland 2,188 2,262 2,330 2,383 2,448 2,531 2,564 2,627 2,665 2,684 2,685
GB 28,898 29,747 30,557 31,207 32,259 32,897 33,070 33,651 33,883 33,958 34,120
Households with a Car 2 (National Travel Survey) percent
Scotland .. .. .. 69 .. 69 .. 70 .. 70 ..
GB .. .. .. 74 .. 75 .. 75 .. 75 ..
Public Road Lengths (all roads) thousand kilometres
Scotland3 53.9 54.1 54.6 54.5 54.5 54.8 54.9 55.1 55.2 55.4 55.5
GB 4 390.2 391.0 391.6 392.3 387.7 388.0 398.4 398.9 394.5 394.4 394.3
Road Traffic billion vehicle kilometres
Motorway
Scotland 5.41 5.57 5.73 5.86 6.09 6.15 6.43 6.58 6.68 6.63 6.50
GB 88.4 90.8 92.6 93.0 96.6 97.0 99.4 100.6 100.1 99.5 98.2
A roads
Scotland 20.5 20.8 21.5 21.8 22.1 21.9 22.5 22.4 22.1 22.3 22.0
GB 5 211.7 215.1 218.6 221.0 224.1 223.1 226.1 224.9 222.8 222.4 219.5
All roads (incl. B, C, unclassified)
Scotland 39.6 40.1 41.5 42.0 42.7 42.7 44.1 44.7 44.5 44.2 43.5
GB 5 467.1 474.4 486.5 490.4 498.6 499.4 507.5 513.0 508.9 504.0 495.9
Reported Road Accident Casualties: Killed or Seriously Injured thousand
Scotland3 3.89 3.76 3.53 3.29 3.07 2.95 2.95 2.67 2.84 2.50 2.17
GB 41.6 40.6 39.4 37.2 34.4 32.2 31.8 30.7 28.6 26.9 24.5
Local bus passenger journeys 4,6 million
Scotland 458 466 471 478 461 468 482 498 493 467 ..
GB 4,420 4,455 4,550 4,681 4,587 4,664 4,890 5,137 5,244 5,188 ..
Rail passenger journeys 6,7 million
Scotland 64.8 64.6 61.4 66.1 72.9 78.1 79.5 87.7 84.3 85.2 ..
GB 755 759 775 791 808 827 984 1,018 1,075 1,068 ..
Air terminal passengers
Scotland 16.8 18.1 19.8 21.1 22.6 23.8 24.4 25.1 24.3 22.5 20.9
UK 179.9 181.2 188.8 200.0 215.7 228.2 235.2 240.7 235.4 218.1 210.6
Freight Lifted million tonnes
Road8
Scotland 159 151 154 153 173 166 174 182 164 139 ..
GB 1,593 1,581 1,627 1,643 1,744 1,746 1,813 1,869 1,734 1,422 ..
Rail 6,8
Scotland 8.25 9.57 9.12 8.32 11.25 14.32 12.96 11.35 10.36 9.68 ..
GB 95 94 87 89 100 105 108 102 103 87 90
Coastwise traffic
Scotland 24.7 20.6 19.2 19.5 20.5 25.5 20.6 22.8 23.3 19.8 ..
UK 63.1 58.5 59.5 58.5 59.8 65.1 56.7 57.6 58.1 54.6 ..
Pipelines 9
Scotland 28.1 28.1 28.0 27.7 27.6 27.6 27.8 27.5 27.6 27.6 27.6
GB 63.6 63.0 58.4 54.9 56.1 55.4 54.5 53.1 53.3 53.6 53.5
Travel to Work (Autumn: Labour Force Survey) percent
Car (or van, minibus, works van)
Scotland 67 69 70 70 69 68 69 69 69 70 71
GB 70 70 71 71 71 71 70 69 70 70 70
Public transport (bus, rail, underground)
Scotland 16 16 15 15 15 16 17 16 16 14 14
GB 14 15 14 14 14 14 15 16 15 15 15

1 These figures are for freight lifted by Heavy Goods Vehicles. The GB figures are for freight transported within GB; the Scottish
figures include small amounts of freight destined for Northern Ireland and outside the UK.

2 Figures are are for combined years e.g. 2008 covers 2008/09.

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

4 DfT revised its methodlogy from 2004, causing a break in the series.

5 The GB figures relate to motor vehicle traffic only, and therefore exclude a small amount of pedal cycle traffic.

6 Financial years

7 Total passenger figures are produced by the ORR and have not been adjusted to reflect ScotRail's revised zonecard methdology.

8 Figures are based on the origin and destination of trips and do not count stages of these trips separately.

9 The estimated amounts of crude oil and products carried by pipelines of length 50+ km. Pipeline figures for 2010 are estimated.

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