Scottish Transport Statistics No 30: 2011 Edition

Table SGB3 Comparisons of Scotland and Great Britain (or UK) - relative to the population
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Vehicles Licensed (all vehicles) per 100 population
Scotland 43 45 46 47 48 50 50 51 52 52 51
GB 51 52 53 54 55 56 56 57 57 57 56
Public Road Lengths (all roads) kilometres per 1,000 population
Scotland 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.8 10.7 10.8 10.7 10.7 10.7 10.7 10.6
GB 6.8 6.8 6.8 6.8 6.7 6.6 6.8 6.7 6.6 6.6 6.5
Road Traffic vehicle kilometres per head
Motorway
Scotland 1,068 1,099 1,134 1,158 1,200 1,207 1,257 1,279 1,293 1,277 1,245
GB 1,547 1,583 1,610 1,608 1,662 1,659 1,689 1,699 1,679 1,669 1,624
A Roads
Scotland 4,055 4,102 4,260 4,316 4,355 4,299 4,390 4,356 4,281 4,299 4,211
GB1 3,706 3,750 3,800 3,820 3,856 3,815 3,842 3,798 3,738 3,731 3,630
All roads (incl. B, C and unclassified)
Scotland 7,814 7,911 8,217 8,312 8,409 8,385 8,622 8,683 8,604 8,513 8,328
GB1 8,176 8,270 8,456 8,477 8,578 8,539 8,624 8,663 8,537 8,455 8,202
Road Accident Casualties Killed or Seriously Injured per 1,000 population
Scotland 0.77 0.74 0.70 0.65 0.61 0.58 0.58 0.52 0.55 0.48 0.42
GB 0.73 0.71 0.68 0.64 0.59 0.55 0.54 0.52 0.48 0.45 0.41
Local bus passenger journeys2,3 per head
Scotland 90 92 93 94 91 92 94 97 95 90 84
GB 77 78 79 81 79 80 83 87 88 87 85
Rail passenger journeys3,4 per head
Scotland 12.8 12.8 12.1 13.1 14.4 15.3 15.5 17.1 16.3 16.4 ..
GB 13.2 13.2 13.5 13.7 13.9 14.1 16.7 17.2 18.0 17.9 ..
Air terminal passengers per head
Scotland 3.3 3.6 3.9 4.2 4.4 4.7 4.8 4.9 4.7 4.3 4.0
UK 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.8 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.4
Freight Lifted tonnes per head
Road
Scotland 31.3 29.8 30.5 30.3 34.1 32.5 33.2 34.4 30.4 25.4 25.3
GB 27.9 27.6 28.3 28.4 30.0 29.9 30.2 30.8 28.0 22.7 24.6
Rail3
Scotland 1.6 1.9 1.8 1.6 2.2 2.8 2.5 2.2 2.0 1.9 ..
GB 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.5 1.5
Coastwise traffic
Scotland 4.9 4.1 3.8 3.9 4.0 5.0 4.0 4.4 4.5 3.8 ..
UK 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9 ..
Pipelines5
Scotland 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.3 5.3 5.3
GB 1.1 1.1 1.0 0.9 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9

1. The GB figures relate to motor vehicle traffic only, and therefore exclude a small amount of pedal cycle traffic.
2. Bus patronage figures are provisional and should be treated with caution. See note 1 of Table S1.
3. Financial Year
4. Rail patronage trend presented here does not incorporate Scotrail's revised methodology. See notes to Table S1.
5. Pipeline figures for 2010 are estimated.