Scottish Transport Statistics No 30: 2011 Edition
| Numbers | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | |
| Vehicles Licensed (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 Car1 (National Travel Survey) | percent | ||||||||||
| Scotland | .. | .. | .. | 69 | .. | 69 | .. | 70 | .. | 70 | .. |
| GB | .. | .. | .. | 74 | .. | 75 | .. | 75 | .. | 75 | .. |
| Public Road Lengths (all roads) | thousand kilometres | ||||||||||
| Scotland | 53.9 | 54.1 | 54.6 | 54.5 | 54.5 | 54.8 | 54.9 | 55.1 | 55.2 | 55.4 | 55.5 |
| GB2 | 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 |
| GB3 | 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 |
| GB3 | 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 | ||||||||||
| Scotland | 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 journeys2,4 | million | ||||||||||
| Scotland | 458 | 466 | 471 | 478 | 461 | 468 | 482 | 498 | 493 | 467 | 438 |
| GB | 4,420 | 4,455 | 4,550 | 4,681 | 4,587 | 4,664 | 4,890 | 5,137 | 5,244 | 5,188 | 5,160 |
| Rail passenger journeys4,5,6 | million | ||||||||||
| Scotland | 64.8 | 64.6 | 61.4 | 66.1 | 72.9 | 78.1 | 79.5 | 87.7 | 84.5 | 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 | ||||||||||
| Road8,9 | |||||||||||
| Scotland | 159 | 151 | 154 | 153 | 173 | 166 | 170 | 177 | 157 | 132 | 132 |
| GB | 1,593 | 1,581 | 1,627 | 1,643 | 1,744 | 1,746 | 1,776 | 1,822 | 1,668 | 1,356 | 1,489 |
| Rail4 | |||||||||||
| 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 | .. |
| Pipelines7 | |||||||||||
| 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. Figures are for combined years e.g. 2009 covers 2009/10.
2. DfT revised its methodlogy from 2004, causing a break in the series.
3. The GB figures relate to motor vehicle traffic only, and therefore exclude a small amount of pedal cycle traffic.
4. Financial years
5. Total passenger figures are produced by the ORR and have not been adjusted to reflect ScotRail's revised zonecard methdology.
6. Figures are based on the origin and destination of trips and do not count stages of these trips separately.
7. The estimated amounts of crude oil and products carried by pipelines of length 50+ km. Pipeline figures for 2010 are estimated.
8. 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.
9. Domestic freight estimates for 2006 to 2009 were revised on 27 October 2011