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Publication - Statistics

Transport and Travel in Scotland 2010

Published
31 August 2011
ISBN
9781780453668

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.

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Table H1 Summary of passenger traffic

Year 1 Car Bus Rail Air Ferry Car Bus Rail Air Ferry
vehicle passenger passenger terminal passengers
kilometres journeys journeys passengers on selected
on major on originating at ferry
roads local in airports services 4
(M and A) services 2 Scotland3
million Index, 1985 = 100
1960 .. 1,664 64.9 1.20 .. .. 242 114 17 ..
1961 .. 1,633 63.4 1.41 .. .. 238 111 20 ..
1962 .. 1,579 72.3 1.59 .. .. 230 127 23 ..
1963 .. 1,561 71.7 1.82 .. .. 227 126 26 ..
1964 .. 1,506 73.0 2.07 .. .. 219 128 30 ..
1965 .. 1,417 71.0 2.29 .. .. 206 124 33 ..
1966 .. 1,344 65.8 2.56 .. .. 196 115 37 ..
1967 .. 1,297 65.9 2.76 .. .. 189 115 40 ..
1968 .. 1,220 67.0 2.69 .. .. 178 117 39 ..
1969 .. 1,169 68.4 2.91 .. .. 170 120 42 ..
1970 .. 1,057 70.7 3.10 .. .. 154 124 45 ..
1971 .. 1,019 66.5 3.20 .. .. 148 116 46 ..
1972 .. 998 61.2 3.64 .. .. 145 107 52 ..
1973 .. 975 60.5 4.07 4.82 .. 142 106 59 103
1974 .. 896 69.1 4.00 4.96 .. 131 121 58 106
1975 9,318 891 66.2 4.18 5.28 68 130 116 60 113
1976 9,438 881 60.1 4.78 5.17 69 128 105 69 111
1977 9,622 824 56.8 4.85 4.82 71 120 99 70 103
1978 9,749 794 59.7 5.90 4.64 72 116 105 85 99
1979 9,643 786 57.6 6.33 4.56 71 114 101 91 98
1980 10,262 763 61.5 6.37 4.48 75 111 108 92 96
1981 10,418 716 57.8 6.50 4.27 77 104 101 94 91
1982 10,733 694 49.5 6.37 4.19 79 101 87 92 90
1983 11,043 680 55.7 6.48 4.51 81 99 98 93 97
1984 12,794 669 51.3 6.99 4.67 94 97 90 101 100
1985 13,606 687 57.1 6.94 4.67 100 100 100 100 100
1986 14,012 660 53.1 7.24 4.85 103 96 93 104 104
1987 14,881 662 54.1 7.81 5.35 109 96 95 112 115
1988 15,946 662 54.0 8.51 5.66 117 96 95 123 121
1989 17,027 628 51.8 9.23 6.18 125 91 91 133 132
1990 17,476 600 52.8 9.86 6.54 128 87 92 142 140
1991 17,553 585 54.5 9.57 6.80 129 85 95 138 146
1992 18,068 545 59.3 10.38 6.63 133 79 104 150 142
1993 18,211 538 59.1 11.12 6.63 134 78 104 160 142
1994 18,683 526 54.4 11.79 6.65 137 77 95 170 142
1995 19,226 506 56.7 12.31 6.86 141 74 99 177 147
1996 19,888 478 57.5 13.21 5.59 146 70 101 190 120
1997 20,266 448 60.7 14.39 5.63 149 65 106 207 121
1998 20,456 424 62.5 15.19 5.33 150 62 109 219 114
1999 20,700 455 64.9 15.94 5.33 152 66 114 230 114
2000 20,566 458 64.8 16.79 5.29 151 67 113 242 113
2001 20,977 466 64.6 18.08 5.30 154 68 113 260 114
2002 21,760 471 61.4 19.78 5.37 160 69 107 285 115
2003 21,922 478 66.1 21.08 5.72 161 70 116 304 123
2004 22,308 461 72.9 22.55 5.92 164 67 128 325 127
2005 22,060 468 78.1 23.80 5.97 162 68 137 343 128
2006 22,610 482 79.5 24.44 6.02 166 70 139 352 129
2007 22,392 498 87.7 25.13 6.01 165 73 154 362 129
2008 22,221 493 84.3 24.35 5.70 163 72 148 351 122
2009 22,496 467 85.2 22.50 5.93 165 68 149 324 127
2010 21,998 .. .. 20.91 5.87 162 .. .. 301 126

1 The figures for Car and Air are for calendar years; latterly, the figures for Bus and Rail
are for the financial years which start in the specified calendar years (eg the 1996 figures are for 1996-97)

2 Pre-1975, the figures are the totals of passenger journeys for the Scottish Bus Group and the four city corporations. Therefore,
they include any non-stage (non-local) services run by these operators, and exclude other operators' stage (local) services.
Glasgow Corporation's figures may have included passenger journeys on trolley buses and the Glasgow Underground.
Figures from 2004 onwards have been subject to revision due to methodological improvements

3 Rail patronage trend from 2003 onward incorporates Scotrail's revised methodology. See notes to Table S1.

4 Those routes for which figures are available back to 1973: Caledonian MacBrayne, P&O Scottish Ferries /
NorthLink Orkney and Shetland Ferries, and Orkney Ferries. The figures from 1995 are affected by the reduction in traffic
caused by the withdrawal of the Kyle-Kyleakin service when the Skye Bridge opened in October 1995.

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