Scottish Transport Statistics No 30: 2011 Edition

Table 2.3 Vehicle kilometres by type of service1
Type of service	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05 4	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
											million vehicle kilometres
Local bus services	369	368	374	369	369	382	387	390	365	379	354
Other (non-local) services	161	145	143	166	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
All services	530	513	516	535	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Commercial local bus services2	314	306	311	302	310	317	313	316	294	300	285
Subsidised local bus services3	56	62	63	67	59	65	74	74	71	79	69

1. The revisions made by DfT in September 2005 increased the number of passengers for 1999-00 onwards by about 2% in each year. In September 2006, DfT revised the bus passenger numbers for each year from 1985-86 in order to adjust for the under-recording by some operators of the numbers of passengers not pay cash (e.g. season tickets, concessionary fare passes, multi-trip tickets etc). These revisions increased the passenger numbers by between 2.4% and 4.4% per year, (as the proportion of cash fares has been declining, the adjustments to the more recent figures tended to be greater).
2. Services run without direct financial support, but which are still eligible for Government subsidy in the form of the Bus Service Operators Grant and concessionary fare reimbursement.
3. Services which are run under contract, with some direct subsidy from the local transport authority, because they are considered socially necessary.
4. Break in the local bus series due to changes in the estimation methodology from 2004/05

Figure 2.3 Passenger receipts at constant 2009-10 prices

£ Million

Figure 2.3 Passenger receipts at constant 2009-10 prices

Note: Breaks in series are due to changes in definitions and methodology and data is not comparable across breaks.
For more detail see table 2.5

Figure 2.4 Local bus fare indices

Figure 2.4 Local bus fare indices