Summary Transport Statistics

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Historical Series

Summary Transport Statistics

1. Introduction

This chapter highlights some of the main findings from Scottish Transport Statistics , and includes summary tables which provide longer term trends than those included in the individual chapters. This publication covers data up until 2019-20. As a result, the main effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions are not reflected in the data.

Throughout the pandemic, Transport Scotland has published weekly reports on transport trends across all main modes, which are available on the Transport Scotland website. Data which covers the pandemic will be published in future iterations of Scottish Transport Statistics.

2. The content of this chapter

This chapter covers the following topics:

3. Overview of travel in Scotland
4. Motor vehicles, traffic and road casualties
5. Public transport: bus, rail, air and ferry
6. Personal travel (e.g. driving, walking and cycling; travel to work and school)
7. Freight
8. Cross-border transport
9. Environment and emissions

The tables, which appear at the end of the chapter, provide information on long-term trends in Scottish transport, including comparisons between Scotland and Great Britain.

3. Overview of travel in Scotland

In 2019-20, 502 million public transport journeys were made by bus, rail, air and ferry. This is a decrease on 517 million public transport journeys in 2018-19. Of these journeys, 73% were by bus, 19% by rail, 6% by air and 2% by ferry.

Two thirds of commuters said that they travelled to work by car or van in 2019, 12 per cent walked, 10 per cent went by bus, 5 per cent took a train and 3 per cent cycled.

Over the last five years, there have been increases in car traffic, and in air, rail and ferry passenger numbers. Conversely, the number of bus passengers decreased over the same time period. Over the same period, Scotland's population increased by 2 per cent.

	2014-15	2019-20	Change over 1 year	Change over 5 years
Car Traffic (m/veh km) on all roads	34,491	36,747	1.0%	6.5%
ScotRail Passengers (millions)	92.7	96.4	-1.4%	4.0%
Bus Passengers (millions)	414	366	-3.2%	-11.6%
Air Passengers (millions)	24.1	28.9	-1.9%	19.9%
Ferry Passengers (millions)	9.7	10.4	1.4%	7.7%

Source: STS 2020, Table S1 except Traffic estimates from table 5.3.

4. Motor vehicles, traffic and road casualties

4.1 Motor vehicles

Figure 1: Motor vehicles licensed in Scotland

Figure 1: Motor vehicles licensed in Scotland

There were 3.0 million motor vehicles licensed in Scotland in 2019, the highest ever level. This was 13% higher than in 2009 and up from 0.9 million in 1964. At the same time, the number of new vehicle registrations decreased by 5% compared to 2018, the third consecutive annual decrease. This suggests that people are buying fewer new vehicles and retaining their existing vehicles for longer.

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There were fewer vehicles per person in Scotland than in Great Britain as a whole (56 compared to 60 per hundred population), as has consistently been the case.

4.2 The road network

There were 56,722 kilometres of public road in Scotland in 2019. Seven per cent of this was trunk road, which is managed centrally by Transport Scotland; the remaining roads are the responsibility of local authorities. In Scotland, there was 10.4 kilometres of road per 1,000 people, compared to 6.1 km per 1000 people in GB as a whole.

4.3 Road traffic

The distance travelled on Scotland's roads was at the highest level ever recorded. In 2019, 48.7 billion vehicle kilometres were travelled, an increase of 1% compared to the previous year, and 10% more than in 2009.

Long-term, the volume of car traffic on major roads (Motorways and A roads) has roughly tripled, from an estimated 9,300 million vehicle kilometres in 1975 to between 28,000 and 32,000 million vehicle kilometres for the last ten years.

Car and van users reported that 12% of journeys were delayed due to traffic congestion in 2019; 1% more than 2009.

Figure 2: Traffic in Scotland (vehicle km)

Figure 2: Traffic in Scotland (vehicle km)

4.4 Road casualties

Figure 3: Reported road casualties of all severities – including fatal, seriously injured and slightly injured

Figure 3: Reported road casualties of all severities – including fatal, seriously injured and slightly injured

In 2019, 165 people were killed and 2,016 seriously injured in road accidents.

The total number of casualties on Scottish roads has fallen by 9% between 2018 and 2019 and is at the lowest level since records began over 50 years ago.

The total number of road casualties decreased by 49% over the last decade. Casualties of all severities have fallen over this period.

In Scotland in 2019, for every thousand people in the population, 0.40 were killed or seriously injured in road accidents, compared to 0.43 for Great Britain.

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5. Public transport: bus, rail, air and ferry

5.1 Local bus and rail services

Figure 4: Bus and rail passenger numbers in Scotland

Figure 4: Bus and rail passenger numbers in Scotland

Bus

In 2019, there were 366 million bus passenger journeys, a decrease of 3.2% on the previous year. Two fifths of all bus journeys in 2019 were made under the National Concessionary Travel scheme.

Bus passenger journeys have generally been falling in the long term, almost halving between 1960 and 1975 and roughly halving again since then.

Rail

There were 96.4 million ScotRail passenger journeys in 2018-19, 1.4% less than the previous year. However, rail passenger numbers have increased by 25% since 2008- 09, and rail patronage has been rising steadily since 1994-95.

proportion of journeys by ticket type

5.2 Air and ferry passengers

Figure 5: Air and ferry passenger numbers in Scotland

Figure 5: Air and ferry passenger numbers in Scotland

Note: in the above figure, 'selected services' refers to those services for which data is available back to 1975 – Caledonian MacBrayne, P&O Scottish Ferries, Northlink Orkney and Shetland Ferries and Orkney Ferries.

Air

There were 29 million air terminal passenger numbers in 2019, down 2% compared to the previous year, and 28% higher than 2009. Over the longer term, passenger numbers have generally been increasing.

In 2019, 5% of all terminal passenger traffic was from within Scotland, 38% was to or from other parts of the UK, 45% was between Scotland and mainland Europe.

Ferry

In 2019, 10.4 million passengers travelled by ferry (including traffic within Scotland and to and from Northern Ireland), a 1.4% increase on the previous year.

Across all ferry routes, 3.5 million vehicles were carried in 2019 (including traffic between Scotland and Northern Ireland and within Scotland), a 2.3% increase on the previous year.

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6. Personal travel (e.g. driving, walking and cycling; travel to work and school)

In 2019, 71% of people aged 17 or over had a full driving licence. The proportion of men aged 17+ holding a licence was higher than women (77% compared to 66%) however, the proportion of women with a license has been slowly increasing over time.

43% of people drove every day in 2019, the same as ten years ago. Car ownership has also remained fairly stable over this period, with around 72% of households having access to at least one car.

Figure 6: Main modes of travel to work and school

Figure 6: Main modes of travel to work and school

In 2019, 30% of journeys to work were by public or active travel, one percent lower than in 2009. Public and active travel to work has remained at around 30% since 2009, with cycling retaining a low modal share.

Around two thirds of people (68%) were either very or fairly satisfied with public transport in 2019, an increase on 2018 (65%).

7. Freight

Figure 7: Freight lifted in tonnes

Figure 7: Freight lifted in tonnes

In 2019, 117 million tonnes of road freight was lifted in Scotland.

By weight, much more freight is carried by road than by any other mode of transport.

Before 2011, more tonne-kilometres of freight (a measure which takes account of the distance that freight is carried) were moved by coastwise shipping than any other mode of transport. However, since then more tonne-kilometres are moved by road.

After falling between 1960 and 1994-5, rail freight traffic has since increased in most years until 2005, when it began to decline again.

Fourteen million tonnes of freight were lifted by coastwise shipping in 2015 – a fall from 25 million in 2000.

The amount of oil carried in Scottish pipelines rose rapidly to 23 million tonnes in 1977, and has fluctuated since then, levelling out at 28 million tonnes in 1998. Per head of population, the amount of freight lifted by pipeline is significantly greater in Scotland than in Great Britain.

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8. Cross-border transport

In 2019, there were 12.8 million air and ferry passenger journeys to other parts of the UK, a decrease of 0.4% since 2018. The majority of these journeys were made by air (11.0 million).

The most recently available figures for rail journeys show 9.9 million passenger journeys were made to other parts of the UK in 2018.

In 2019, 16 million passenger journeys were made to and from other countries by air, an increase of 65% since 2009.

9. Environment and emissions

Figure 9: Share of greenhouse gas emissions by mode in 2018

Figure 9: Share of greenhouse gas emissions by mode in 2018

Transport accounted for 35.6% of Scotland's total greenhouse gas emissions in 2018.

Scotland's transport emissions in 2018 were 1.1% lower than in 2017, and 0.5% lower than in 1990.

Newly registered cars are becoming more efficient in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, with average CO₂ emissions in Scotland for new car registrations falling by 15% over the last ten years and decreasing by 2% compared to last year.

Change in emissions by key transport mode 2017-2018

Change in emissions by key transport mode 2017-2018

At the end of 2019, ULEVS accounted for 1.9% of vehicles licensed in Scotland. There has been anincrease in the numbers of ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) registered in Scotland between 2014 Q1 and 2019 Q3, with the number rising from 1,048 to 14,803. The biggest increase has been in Plug-in-Grant Eligible cars which accounted for 93 per cent of newly registered ULEVS and 94 per cent of all ULEVs in 2019.

Table S1: Summary of Transport in Scotland
Numbers
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Vehicles Licensed											thousands
Private and Light Goods ¹	2,362	2,364	2,369	2,395	2,436	2,496	2,537	2,594	2,638	2,665	2,711
All Vehicles ¹	2,684	2,685	2,691	2,717	2,759	2,821	2,863	2,919	2,962	2,991	3,041
New Registrations	216	209	202	216	241	262	268	270	250	233	221
Local Bus Services²											millions
Passenger Journeys (boardings)³	458	430	436	420	421	414	410	395	390	378	366
Vehicle Kilometres³	377	346	338	327	332	336	341	337	334	332	335
Passenger Revenue											£ million
at latest year's prices ^3,16	752	716	720	735	720	704	726	725	704	694	595
Freight Lifted											million tonnes
Road ^{4, 9}	132	132	135	137	125	123	133	140	123	129	117
Rail ^2,15	9.69	8.33	9.87	8.43	..	..	..	..	..	4.45	4.28
Coastwise traffic	19.8	18.0	16.3	12.5	11.4	11.8	14.2	..	..	..	..
One Port traffic	3.59	1.88	2.42	2.57	2.10	2.19	..	..	..	..	..
Inland waterway traffic	10.10	10.89	10.70	10.79	10.69	9.41	10.14	9.42	..	..	..
Pipelines ⁵	27.6	27.6	27.8	28.2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Total	202.7	198.6	201.9	199.7	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Public Road Lengths											kilometres
Trunk (A and M)¹⁰	3,520	3,518	3,536	3,566	3,565	3,637	3,638	3,669	3,681	3,735	3,739
Other Major (A and M)	7,421	7,414	7,467	7,473	7,473	7,406	7,414	7,418	7,427	7,500	7,529
Minor Roads	44,591	44,694	44,769	44,873	44,938	45,011	45,100	45,163	45,257	45,355	45,454
All Roads¹⁰	55,532	55,626	55,772	55,912	55,975	56,054	56,152	56,250	56,364	56,591	56,722
Road Traffic ¹⁴											million vehicle-kilometres
Motorways ¹¹	6,633	6,503	6,570	7,140	7,262	7,421	7,477	7,829	8,054	8,518	8,654
A roads	22,327	21,992	21,996	21,712	21,786	22,025	22,395	23,019	23,351	23,024	23,557
All roads (incl. B, C, uncl.)	44,219	43,496	43,406	43,573	43,909	44,963	45,555	46,696	48,036	48,175	48,714
Reported Road Accident Casualties ^12,13
Killed	216	208	185	176	172	203	168	191	145	161	165
Killed and Serious	2,503	2,177	2,063	2,157	1,839	1,904	1,770	1,889	1,739	1,745	2,181
All (Killed, Serious, Slight)	15,043	13,338	12,785	12,712	11,492	11,302	10,977	10,898	9,433	8,424	7,638
Passenger Rail ^2,6											millions
ScotRail passenger journeys ⁶	76.9	78.3	81.1	83.3	86.3	92.7	93.8	94.2	97.8	97.8	96.4
ORR data:
Rail journeys in/from Scotland ⁷	76.5	79.5	83.3	85.8	86.7	91.7	93.4	94.2	97.1	97.0	..
Passenger receipts (2018 £mill)	443.4	459.5	471.0	489.4	503.9	529.8	549.29	555.3	631.0	623.7	..
Air Transport											thousands
Terminal Passengers	22,496	20,907	22,065	22,207	23,250	24,076	25,507	26,924	28,833	29,443	28,876
Transport Movements	382.7	354.4	366.3	372.1	376.4	376.2	376.4	376.0	383.9	376.6	367.5
											thousand tonnes
Freight	50.9	47.5	45.2	52.2	54.2	59.9	56.4	55.9	60.3	62.3	58.9
Ferries ⁸											thousands
Passengers	10,219	9,990	9,631	9,698	9,662	9,679	9,554	10,073	10,255	10,279	10,427
Vehicles	3,135	3,072	3,071	3,076	2,972	3,074	3,146	3,372	3,506	3,456	3,534
of which on routes within Scotland
Passengers	8,272	8,016	7,773	7,888	7,831	7,884	7,824	8,320	8,501	8,529	8,656
Vehicles	2,648	2,554	2,551	2,628	2,577	2,626	2,706	2,930	3,060	3,043	3,120

1 DfT has revised the figures for the light goods and goods body types back to 2001. DfT does not have the underlying data to revise earlier years' figures.

2 Financial years

3 The DfT have revised figures from 2004/05 onwards as a result of methodological improvements. Figures prior to this period are not directly comparable.

See Chapter 2 for more detail. Figures from 2006 include Government support for buses which is not available for the two previous years.

4 Freight lifted in Scotland by UK-registered hauliers, regardless of whether the destination is in Scotland, elsewhere in the UK or outwith the UK.

The figures for 2004 onwards are not compatible with those for earlier years due to changes in methodology and processing system for the survey.

5 The estimated amounts of crude oil and products carried by pipelines over 50km in length. 2012 figures are provisional.

6 ScotRail introduced a new methodology which better estimates Strathclyde Zonecard journeys from 2009/10. Figures from 2003/04 onwards present the impact of this on previously reported data to provide a more meaningful year on year comparison. Note that this has no impact on actual journeys undertaken.

7 The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) produce total passenger figures. These are not adjusted to reflect ScotRail's revised methdology and are therefore not comparable with ScotRail figures. There is a series break between 2007-08 and 2008-09 due to a change in the methodology. From 2008-09 estimates of PTE travel (zone cards) are included.

8 Services to Europe, Northern Ireland and within Scotland (Previous versions of STS only included services where data is available back to 1975, this can still be found in Table H1). Figures for passenger numbers on the Corran ferry service in 2013, 2014 and 2015 have not been included in the total for Scotland as the figures are new estimates and considered as 'data under development'.

9 Domestic freight estimates for 2011 to 2016 were revised in 2018.

10 Totals have been revised in 2012 to include slip roads on Trunk A roads which had previously excluded. See Road Network chapter for more information.

11 Changes in the layout of the M74/M77/M8 during 2012 are likely to have affected the traffic data for motorways.

12. Due to changes in the the way casualty severities are recorded, killed/serious figures in 2019 are not comparable with previous years.

13 Provisional

14 Estimates for the period since 2010 have been revised to take into account the minor road benchmarking exercise. Further details available at:

15. The figures from 2018 onwards are not comparable with previous figures, as they are collected in a different way. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-traffic-statistics-minor-road-benchmarking

16. The figure for 2019/20 does not include the local authority bus support as it was not available at time of publication.

Table S2: Summary of Transport in Scotland - index numbers
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Vehicles Licensed											Index 2008=100
Private and Light Goods ¹	100.0	100.1	100.3	101.4	103.1	105.7	107.4	109.8	111.7	112.8	114.8
All Vehicles ¹	100.0	100.0	100.3	101.2	102.8	105.1	106.7	108.8	110.3	111.4	113.3
New Registrations	100.0	96.6	93.7	100.2	111.8	121.4	123.9	125.1	115.6	107.9	102.2
Local Bus Services²
Passenger Journeys (boardings)³	100.0	93.9	95.1	91.8	91.9	90.5	89.5	86.3	85.2	82.6	79.9
Vehicle Kilometres³	100.0	91.9	89.7	86.8	88.0	89.2	90.6	89.5	88.8	88.1	88.8
Passenger Revenue at latest year's prices³	100.0	95.1	95.7	97.7	95.7	93.6	96.5	96.3	93.5	92.3	79.1
Freight Lifted
Road ^{4, 9}	100.0	100.0	102.2	104.0	94.8	93.2	100.6	106.1	92.9	97.5	88.9
Rail ²	100.0	86.0	101.9	87.0	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Coastwise traffic	100.0	90.5	82.3	63.2	57.4	59.5	71.5	..	..	..	..
One Port traffic	100.0	52.4	67.4	71.6	58.5	61.0	..	..	..	..	..
Inland waterway traffic	100.0	107.8	105.9	106.8	105.8	93.2	100.4	93.3	..	..	..
Pipelines ⁵	100.0	100.0	100.7	102.2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Total	100.0	97.9	99.6	98.5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Public Road Lengths
Trunk (A and M) ¹⁰	100.0	99.9	100.5	101.3	101.3	103.3	103.4	104.2	104.6	106.1	106.2
Other Major (A and M)	100.0	99.9	100.6	100.7	100.7	99.8	99.9	100.0	100.1	101.1	101.5
Minor Roads	100.0	100.2	100.4	100.6	100.8	100.9	101.1	101.3	101.5	101.7	101.9
All Roads ¹⁰	100.0	100.2	100.4	100.7	100.8	100.9	101.1	101.3	101.5	101.9	102.1
Road Traffic
Motorways	100.0	98.0	99.1	107.6	109.5	111.9	112.7	118.0	121.4	128.4	130.5
A roads	100.0	98.5	98.5	97.2	97.6	98.6	100.3	103.1	104.6	103.1	105.5
All roads (incl. B, C, uncl.)	100.0	98.4	98.2	98.5	99.3	101.7	103.0	105.6	108.6	108.9	110.2
Reported Road Accident Casualties ¹¹
Killed	100.0	96.3	85.6	81.5	79.6	94.0	77.8	88.4	67.1	74.5	76.4
Killed and Serious	100.0	87.0	82.4	86.2	73.5	76.1	70.7	75.5	69.5	69.7	87.1
All (Killed, Serious, Slight)	100.0	88.7	85.0	84.5	76.4	75.1	73.0	72.4	62.7	56.0	50.8
Passenger Rail ^2,6
ScotRail passenger journeys ⁶	100.0	101.8	105.4	108.2	112.2	120.5	122.0	122.5	127.1	127.1	125.3
Rail journeys in/from Scotland ⁷	100.0	104.0	108.9	112.1	113.4	119.9	122.1	123.2	127.0	126.8	..
Passenger receipts (£2018 mill)	100.0	103.6	106.2	110.4	113.6	119.5	123.9	125.2	142.3	140.6	..
Air Transport
Terminal Passengers	100.0	92.9	98.1	98.7	103.4	107.0	113.4	119.7	128.2	130.9	128.4
Transport Movements	100.0	92.6	95.7	97.2	98.4	98.3	98.4	98.2	100.3	98.4	96.0
Freight	100.0	93.4	88.8	102.6	106.6	117.7	110.9	109.8	118.4	122.4	115.8
Ferries ⁸
Passengers	100.0	97.8	94.3	94.9	94.6	94.7	93.5	98.6	100.4	100.6	102.0
Vehicles	100.0	98.0	98.0	98.1	94.8	98.0	100.3	107.6	111.8	110.3	112.7
of which on routes within Scotland
Passengers	100.0	96.9	94.0	95.4	94.7	95.3	94.6	100.6	102.8	103.1	104.7
Vehicles	100.0	96.5	96.4	99.3	97.3	99.2	102.2	110.7	115.6	115.0	117.8

1 DfT has revised the figures for the light goods and goods body types back to 2001. DfT does not have the underlying data to revise earlier years' figures.

2 Financial years

3 The DfT have revised figures from 2004/05 onwards as a result of methodological improvements. Figures prior to this period are not directly comparable.

See Chapter 2 of Scottish Transport Statistics for more detail. Figures from 2006 include Government support for buses which is not available for the two previous years.

4 Freight lifted in Scotland by UK-registered hauliers, regardless of whether the destination is in Scotland, elsewhere in the UK or outwith the UK.

The figures for 2004 onwards are not compatible with those for earlier years due to changes in methodology and processing system for the survey.

5 The estimated amounts of crude oil and products carried by pipelines over 50km in length. 2012 figures are provisional.

7 The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) produce total passenger figures. These are not adjusted to reflect ScotRail's revised methdology and are therefore not comparable with ScotRail figures.

8 Services to Europe, Northern Ireland and within Scotland (Previous versions of STS only included services where data is availabla back to 1975, this can still be found in Table H1).

9 Domestic freight estimates for 2006 to 2009 were revised on 27 October 2011.

10 Totals have been revised in 2012 to include slip roads on Trunk A roads which had previously excluded.

See Road Network chapter for more information.

11. Due to changes in the the way casualty severities are recorded, killed/serious figures in 2019 are not comparable with previous years.

Table S3: Summary of Scottish Household Survey results ^{1, 2}
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Modal share of all journeys ³										column percentages
Walking	21.8	22.0	22.1	26.0	23.3	25.0	21.6	23.5	21.3	19.8	22.1
Driver car/van	51.0	51.1	49.9	48.3	50.0	48.1	49.7	50.6	52.1	52.9	52.9
Passenger car/van	13.3	14.3	13.1	12.7	13.6	13.0	13.3	13.1	12.5	12.8	12.3
Bicycle	0.9	0.8	1.3	1.2	1.0	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.5	1.4	1.2
Bus	8.6	8.7	9.1	8.1	8.5	8.6	9.5	7.7	8.2	8.0	7.0
Taxi/minicab	1.4	0.8	1.3	1.3	1.6	1.2	1.3	0.9	1.3	1.4	1.2
Rail	1.9	1.4	2.0	1.8	1.7	2.1	1.7	2.2	2.6	2.6	2.3
Other	1.0	1.0	1.2	0.7	0.3	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.5	1.0	1.0
Sample size (=100%)	18,680	16,300	17,590	19,740	20,180	19,930	18,710	19,050	18,320	17,790	18,450
Place of work
Works from home	11.4	10.1	10.6	13.2	13.3	13.1	14.1	14.5	14.2	16	16.1
Does not work from home	88.6	89.9	89.4	86.8	86.7	86.9	85.9	85.5	85.8	84	83.9
Sample size (=100%)	6,100	5,860	6,190	4,730	4,850	4,810	4,670	4,720	4,820	4,720	4,890
Travel to work ^4,5
Walking	12.3	13.4	12.9	13.6	12.9	12.9	13.6	12.3	12.0	11.8	12.0
Car or Van	67.0	67.3	66.6	67.3	66.2	67.7	65.9	67.0	67.7	67.7	68.2
Driver	60.7	61.0	59.1	61.4	60.6	61.6	60.3	61.7	62.3	62.9	63.1
Passenger	6.4	6.3	7.5	6.0	5.6	6.0	5.6	5.3	5.4	4.8	5.1
Bicycle	2.4	2.3	2.0	2.0	2.5	2.6	2.2	2.6	3.0	2.8	2.7
Bus	12.1	10.8	12.0	10.1	11.3	10.2	11.2	10.4	9.8	10.1	9.6
Rail, including underground	3.9	3.6	3.9	4.3	4.0	4.2	4.4	5.2	5.1	5.5	5.4
Other	2.3	2.7	2.6	2.6	3.1	2.5	2.7	2.4	2.4	2.2	2.1
Sample size (=100%)	5,370	5,220	5,510	4,100	4,160	4,130	3,950	3,970	4,070	3,910	4,050
% Public and Active Travel ⁶	30.7	30.1	30.8	30.1	30.7	29.8	31.4	30.6	30.1	30.3	29.8
% Journeys under 2 miles by walking	..	..	..	48.5	47.3	51.3	45.1	47.8	45.3	43	47.6
% Journeys under 5 miles by cycling	..	..	..	1.5	1.2	1.8	1.5	1.6	1.8	1.8	1.7
Travel to school ⁷
Walking	50.0	49.7	50.6	51.4	51.7	51.2	48.8	51.8	51.5	52.3	51.8
Car or Van	24.4	23.0	23.4	24.1	24.4	24.5	25.8	25.6	25.5	24.2	25.1
Bicycle	1.0	1.4	1.4	0.8	1.2	1.7	1.2	1.4	0.9	1.9	1.9
Bus (school or service)	22.0	23.9	21.7	21.1	19.9	20.3	21.0	19.3	19.8	19.0	19.3
School bus	16.0	16.1	15.1	14.9	14.5	14.5	15.3	12.9	14.2	13.9	14.3
Service bus	5.9	7.8	6.6	6.2	5.4	5.8	5.7	6.4	5.6	5.1	5
Rail, including underground	0.7	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.6	0.7	1.1	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.3
Other	1.8	1.7	2.2	2.2	2.2	1.7	2.1	1.5	1.7	2	1.7
Sample size (=100%)	2,880	2,680	2,720	1,920	1,980	1,980	1,880	1,890	1,830	1,720	1,920
Household access to car⁸ /bike
No car	30.7	30.3	30.1	31.0	30.2	30.8	30.0	29.3	28.1	28.6	27.6
One car	43.7	44.0	44.5	43.0	44.0	43.3	43.3	42.1	42.7	42.0	41.5
Two Cars	21.5	21.6	21.0	21.3	21.3	21.1	21.7	23.0	23.4	23.7	24.9
Three or more cars	4.2	4.1	4.4	4.7	4.6	4.7	5.1	5.6	5.8	5.7	5.9
One or more cars	69.3	69.7	69.9	69.0	69.8	69.2	70.1	70.7	71.9	71.4	72.4
Two or more cars	25.6	25.7	25.4	26.0	25.8	25.9	26.8	28.5	29.2	29.4	30.8
1+ Bicycles which can be used by adults	35.5	34.3	35.1	35.0	34.3	34.4	35.1	33.8	34.4	34.7	33.5
Sample size	14,190	14,210	14,360	10,640	10,650	10,630	10,330	10,470	10,680	10,530	10,580
Driving (aged 17+)
Those with a full driving licence
Male	76.2	75.6	75.6	75.6	76	75.8	73.4	75.4	75.2	75.6	77
Female	60.6	60.2	59.8	61.6	61.4	61.8	63.1	63.1	64.3	64.0	65.9
Identified in another way	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	*	*
Refused	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	*	*
All	68.0	67.6	67.3	68.3	68.4	68.5	68.0	69.0	70	70	71
Frequency of driving
Every day	43.4	41.4	40.7	42.0	41.9	40.9	40.9	42.2	41.9	41.4	43
At least three times a week	11.9	12.8	13.3	13.1	13.3	13.9	14.5	14.3	14.7	15.3	15.0
Once or twice a week	5.6	6.0	6.2	6.0	5.6	5.9	5.9	6.0	6.1	6.0	6.4
At least 2-3 times a month	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.8	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9
At least once a month	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4
Less than once a month	1.6	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.6	1.8	1.4	1.6	1.3	1.3	1.1
Holds full licence, never drives	4.2	4.3	4.1	4.5	4.5	4.3	4.0	3.4	4.0	4.2	4.4
Does not have a full driving licence	32.0	32.4	32.7	31.7	31.6	31.5	32.0	31.0	30.5	30.5	28.8
Sample size (=100%)	12,450	12,360	12,800	9,830	9,840	9,720	9,340	9,570	9,760	9,650	9,720
Percentage of car/van stages delayed by traffic congestion⁹	11.0	10.5	11.2	9.9	9.69	11.7	12.47	11.7	12.8	13	11.9
Sample size (=100%)	8,680	7,580	8,310	9,830	10,200	9,820	9,315	9,790	9,960	9,390	9,880
Frequency of use of local bus/train service (aged 16+)
Bus service
Every day or almost every day	11.3	11.0	11.1	9.3	11.3	9.7	11.7	9.3	9.7	9.6	8.2
2 or 3 times per week	11.8	11.7	12.5	11.0	11.4	11.3	11.6	10.6	10.6	10.3	9.3
About once a week	8.4	7.7	7.8	7.8	7.8	7.6	8.1	7.7	7.9	7.2	7.0
Once or twice a month	14.1	13.5	14.2	13.7	14.1	13.6	14.3	13.2	14.7	15.1	14.0
Not used in the past month	54.5	56.1	54.3	58.2	55.4	57.7	54.2	59.2	57.1	57.8	61.5
Train service
Every day or almost every day	2.1	1.9	2.0	2.5	2.2	2.2	2.1	2.3	2.6	2.6	2.4
2 or 3 times per week	2.1	1.9	2.2	2.4	2.5	2.1	2.5	2.1	2.2	2.6	2.5
About once a week	3.7	3.5	3.7	4.2	4.0	5.0	4.4	4.2	4.3	4.7	4.0
Once or twice a month	15.9	17.3	17.9	19.1	19.5	21.2	20.7	20.8	21.9	20.6	20.8
Not used in the past month	76.2	75.5	74.2	71.8	71.8	69.5	70.2	70.5	69.0	69.5	70.2
Sample size (=100%)	12,520	12,420	12,890	9,890	9,920	9,800	9,410	9,640	9,810	9,700	9,780

1. The apparent year-to-year fluctuations in some of the figures may be due to sampling variability.

2. 1999 to 2007 results can be viewed by unhiding columns E to M.

3. The Travel diary methodology changed in 2007 and in 2012, creating a break in the time series.

4. Employed adults (aged 16+) not working from home

5. Figures for 2017 travel to work by car or van an by train have been revised from 67.7 an 5.1.

6. Tram journeys were not included in publications before 2018. They have now been added, and the 2016 figure is 0.1% higher than previous published.

7. Figures for 2017 Travel to school by car or van have been revised from 25.5.

8. From 2012 Q4 the question was changed to ask about access to cars / vans instead of just cars.

9. Data published in 2015 erroneously included a value of 12.5 because of the exclusion of vans; this table contains the revised data.

Table S4: Summary of cross-border transport
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
*Passenger journeys*											millions
to/from other parts of UK
Rail	6.64	7.33	7.59	7.74	7.98	8.67	8.41	9.05	9.62	9.92	..
Air ¹	10.89	9.83	10.12	10.05	10.30	10.57	11.15	11.25	11.39	11.47	11.01
Ferry ²	1.92	1.92	1.86	1.81	1.83	1.79	1.73	1.75	1.75	1.75	1.77
Total these modes	19.45	19.08	19.57	19.60	20.11	21.03	21.28	22.05	22.76	23.14	..
to/from other countries
Air ³	9.74	9.27	10.06	10.21	10.86	11.25	12.19	13.84	15.51	16.04	16.02
Ferry ⁴	0.03	0.05	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.000	0.001	0.000	0.000	0
Total these modes	9.77	9.32	10.06	10.21	10.86	11.25	12.19	13.84	15.51	16.04	16.02
Total cross-border passengers
Rail	6.64	7.33	7.59	7.74	7.98	8.67	8.41	9.05	9.62	9.92	..
Air	20.63	19.10	20.18	20.26	21.16	21.81	23.34	25.09	26.90	27.51	27.03
Ferry	1.95	1.97	1.86	1.81	1.83	1.79	1.73	1.75	1.75	1.75	1.77
Total these modes	29.22	28.41	29.63	29.82	30.97	32.27	33.47	35.89	38.27	39.18	..
*Freight*
to other parts of UK
Road ⁵	12.6	14.8	13.5	13.5	13.0	13.5	16.7	16.2	14.8	17.0	19.1
Rail	3.3	3.1	4.5	2.9	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Water	17.6	16.6	16.6	8.8	10.7	10.7	..	..	..	..	..
Total these modes	33.4	34.5	34.6	25.2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
from other parts of UK
Road ⁵	16.0	17.9	17.5	19.6	16.2	18.2	20.3	19.3	19.0	19.8	20.7
Rail	1.3	1.6	3.3	1.7	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Water	4.9	5.5	4.9	2.1	4.8	5.3	..	..	..	..	..
Total these modes	22.1	25.0	25.8	23.3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Total to/from other parts of UK
Road ⁵	28.6	32.7	31.0	33.1	29.2	31.7	37.0	35.5	33.8	36.8	39.8
Rail	4.5	4.7	7.8	4.6	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Water	22.4	22.1	21.6	10.8	15.5	16.0	..	..	..	..	..
Total these modes	55.6	59.5	60.4	48.5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
to other countries
Road ⁵	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4
Rail ⁶	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Water ⁷	38.3	39.9	33.4	32.1	31.6	30.8	30.3	33.0	30.9	33.3	33.4
Total these modes	39.2	40.7	34.0	32.8	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
from other countries
Road ⁵	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2
Rail ⁸	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Water ⁷	13.5	13.2	14.2	16.3	16.5	16.6	13.5	9.5	10.6	11.5	11.9
Total these modes	14.2	13.8	14.7	16.8	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Total to/from other countries
Road ⁵	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.6
Rail	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Water	51.9	53.1	47.6	48.3	48.1	47.4	43.7	42.5	41.5	44.8	45.4
Total	53.3	54.4	48.8	49.5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Total cross-border freight
Road ⁵	29.3	33.3	31.4	33.5	29.6	32.0	37.4	35.8	34.1	37.1	40.4
Rail	5.3	5.5	8.6	5.4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Water	74.3	75.2	69.2	59.1	63.6	63.4	..	..	..	..	..
Total these modes	108.9	114.0	109.1	98.0	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

1 England, Wales or Northern Ireland - for the purposes of this table, UK offshore is not counted as another part of the UK.

2 Scotland / Northern Ireland ferries

3 Figures for 1999 and earlier years are available on the website. They are approximate as they include an element of estimation.

4 The Rosyth/Zeebrugge service started in May 2002, there was a drop in the frequency of service from November 2005 and the passenger service ceased in December 2010.

Figures for services between Lerwick and other countries are available from 1998.

5 Freight lifted by UK HGVs only - does not include freight carried by other HGVs or by other types of vehicle (such as light goods vehicles)

The figures for 2004 onwards are not directly comparable with earlier years, due to changes to the survey's methodology & processing.

6 The Rail figures for 'outwith UK' include freight taken to Scottish, English or Welsh ports for export.

7 Figures relate only to exports/imports from major ports only. Note these have increased over the years.

8 The Rail figures for 'outwith UK' include freight imported at an English or Welsh port, then brought into Scotland by rail.

Table SGB1: Comparisons of Scotland and Great Britain (or the UK) - numbers
Numbers		2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Vehicles Licensed (all vehicles)												thousand
	Scotland	2,684	2,685	2,691	2,717	2,759	2,821	2,863	2,919	2,962	2,991	3,041
	GB	33,958	34,120	34,229	34,522	35,034	35,633	36,467	37,257	37,735	38,184	38,683
Households with a Car ¹(National Travel Survey)												percent
	Scotland	70	..	70	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	GB	75	..	72	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Public Road Lengths (all roads)												thousand kilometres
	Scotland	55.5	55.6	55.8	55.9	56.0	56.1	56.2	56.2	56.4	56.6	56.7
	GB²	394.4	394.3	394.3	394.9	395.5	395.6	395.7	396.7	397.0	397.0	397.6
Road Traffic												billion vehicle kilometres
Motorway	Scotland	6.63	6.50	6.57	7.14	7.26	7.42	7.48	7.83	8.05	8.52	8.65
	GB ³	99.5	98.2	99.5	100.4	101.9	104.3	107.0	108.9	110.5	111.1	113.5
A roads	Scotland	22.3	22.0	22.0	21.7	21.8	22.0	22.4	23.0	23.4	23.0	23.6
	GB ³	222.4	219.5	220.4	218.5	218.6	222.9	226.9	233.1	235.7	239.1	241.7
All roads (incl. B, C, unclassified)	Scotland	44.2	43.5	43.4	43.6	43.9	45.0	45.6	46.7	48.0	48.2	48.7
	GB ³	495.8	492.1	496.1	497.3	502.0	518.5	530.4	544.3	555.5	562.5	573.8
Local bus passenger journeys^{2, 4}												thousand
	Scotland ¹²	2.50	2.18	2.06	2.16	1.84	1.90	1.77	1.89	1.74	1.75	2.18
	GB ¹	26.9	24.5	25.0	24.8	23.4	24.6	23.9	25.9	26.6	27.3	27.7
Local bus passenger journeys ^{2, 4}												million
	Scotland	458	430	436	420	421	414	410	395	390	378	366
	GB	5,188	5,164	5,191	5,099	5,201	5,142	5,023	4,935	4,838	4,787	4,524
Rail passenger journeys ^{4, 5, 6}												million
	Scotland	76.5	79.5	83.3	85.8	86.7	91.7	93.4	94.2	97.1	97.0	..
	GB ^{10, 11}	1,065	1,160	1,228	1,269	1,333	1,393	1,464	1,470	1,476	1,520	..
Air terminal passengers
	Scotland	22.5	20.9	22.1	22.2	23.3	24.1	25.5	26.9	28.8	29.4	28.9
	UK	217.7	210.3	219.0	220.4	228.2	238.2	251.3	268.2	284.4	292.1	296.7
Freight Lifted												million tonnes
Road ^{8, 9}	Scotland	132	132	135	137	125	123	133	140	123	129	117
	UK	1,356	1,489	1,457	1,427	1,316	1,322	1,445	1,434	1,397	1,405	1,440
Rail ⁴	Scotland ¹³	9.69	8.33	9.87	8.43	..	..	..	..	..	4.45	4.28
	GB	87	90	102	113	117	111	86	79	75	75	70
Coastwise traffic	Scotland	19.8	18.0	16.3	12.5	11.4	11.8	14.2	..	..	..	..
	UK	54.6	50.5	49.3	42.8	37.9	39.5	42.6	39.7	34.6	..	..
Pipelines ⁷	Scotland	27.6	27.6	27.8	28.2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	GB	53.6	53.5	53.7	54.3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Travel to Work (Autumn: Labour Force Survey)												percent
Car (or van, minibus, works van)	Scotland	70	71	68	68	69	69	70	71	70	70	70
	GB	70	70	68	69	68	69	68	68	68	68	68
Public transport (bus, rail, underground)	Scotland	15	14	16	15	16	15	15	14	14	14	14
	GB	15	15	16	16	16	16	17	17	18	17	18

1 Figures are for combined years e.g. 2011 covers 2011/12.

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. Figures from 2010 have been revised to take acount of the minor road benchmarking exercise. Further details available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-traffic-statistics-minor-road-benchmarking

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 over 50km in length. 2012 figures are provisional.

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.

10 Figs for 2008-09 onwards have been revised due to an error in the LENNON calculation of journeys between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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

12 Due to changes in the the way casualty severities are recorded, killed/serious figures in 2019 are not comparable with previous years.

13 The figures from 2018 onwards are not comparable with previous figures, as they are collected in a different way.

Table SGB2: Comparisons of Scotland and Great Britain (or UK) - index numbers
		2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Vehicles Licensed (all vehicles)												Index 2009=100
	Scotland	100.0	100.0	100.3	101.2	102.8	105.1	106.7	108.8	110.3	111.4	113.3
	GB	100.0	100.5	100.8	101.7	103.2	104.9	107.4	109.7	111.1	112.4	113.9
Public Road Lengths (all roads)
	Scotland	100.0	100.2	100.4	100.7	100.8	100.9	101.1	101.3	101.5	101.9	102.1
	GB ¹	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.1	100.3	100.3	100.3	100.6	100.7	100.7	100.8
Road Traffic
Motorway	Scotland	100.0	98.0	99.1	107.6	109.5	111.9	112.7	118.0	121.4	128.4	130.5
	GB	100.0	98.7	100.0	100.9	102.4	104.8	107.5	109.4	111.1	111.7	114.1
A roads	Scotland	100.0	98.5	98.5	97.2	97.6	98.6	100.3	103.1	104.6	103.1	105.5
	GB ²	100.0	98.7	99.1	98.2	98.3	100.2	102.0	104.8	106.0	107.5	108.7
All roads (incl. B, C, unclassified)	Scotland	100.0	98.4	98.2	98.5	99.3	101.7	103.0	105.6	108.6	108.9	110.2
	GB ²	100.0	99.3	100.1	100.3	101.3	104.6	107.0	109.8	112.0	113.5	115.7
Reported Road Accident Casualties: Killed or Seriously Injured ¹¹
	Scotland	100.0	87.0	82.4	86.2	73.5	76.1	70.7	75.5	69.5	69.7	87.1
	GB	100.0	91.1	93.0	92.1	86.8	91.3	88.7	96.2	98.8	101.4	102.9
Local bus passenger journeys ^{2, 4}
	Scotland	100.0	93.9	95.1	91.8	91.9	90.5	89.5	86.3	85.2	82.6	79.9
	GB	100.0	99.5	100.1	98.3	100.2	99.1	96.8	95.1	93.2	92.3	87.2
Rail passenger journeys ^{4, 5, 6}
	Scotland	100.0	104.0	108.9	112.1	113.4	119.9	122.1	123.2	127.0	126.8	..
	GB	100.0	108.9	115.3	119.1	125.1	130.7	137.4	137.9	138.5	142.7	..
Air terminal passengers
	Scotland	100.0	92.9	98.1	98.7	103.4	107.0	113.4	119.7	128.2	130.9	128.4
	UK	100.0	96.6	100.6	101.2	104.8	109.4	115.4	123.2	130.6	134.1	136.3
Freight Lifted
Road ^{6, 8}	Scotland	100.0	100.0	102.2	104.0	94.8	93.2	100.6	106.1	92.9	97.5	88.9
	UK	100.0	109.8	107.4	105.2	97.1	97.5	106.6	105.7	103.0	103.6	106.2
Rail ³	Scotland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	GB	100.0	103.1	116.6	129.7	133.7	126.7	98.7	91.1	86.0	86.5	80.0
Coastwise traffic	Scotland	100.0	90.5	82.3	63.2	57.4	59.5	71.5	..	..	..	..
	UK	100.0	92.5	90.3	78.5	69.5	72.4	78.1	72.7	63.4	..	..
Pipelines ⁷	Scotland	100.0	100.0	100.7	102.2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	GB	100.0	99.8	100.2	101.3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

1 Figures are for combined years e.g. 2011 covers 2011/12.

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 over 50km in length. 2012 figures are provisional.

9 Domestic freight estimates for 2006 to 2009 were revised on 27 October 2011. Later years have yet to be published by DfT.

10 Figures for 2008-09 onwards have been revised due to an error in the LENNON calculation of journeys between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

11 Due to changes in the the way casualty severities are recorded, killed/serious figures in 2019 are not comparable with previous years.

Table SGB3: Comparisons of Scotland and Great Britain (or UK) - relative to the population
		2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Vehicles Licensed (all vehicles)												per 100 population
	Scotland	51	51	51	51	52	53	53	54	55	55	56
	GB	56	56	56	56	56	57	58	58	59	59	60
Public Road Lengths (all roads)												kilometres per 1,000 population
	Scotland	10.6	10.6	10.5	10.5	10.5	10.5	10.5	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4
	GB	6.5	6.5	6.4	6.4	6.4	6.3	6.3	6.2	6.2	6.2	6.1
Road Traffic												vehicle kilometres per head
Motorway	Scotland	1,268	1,236	1,240	1,344	1,363	1,388	1,392	1,449	1,485	1,566	1,584
	GB	1,646	1,611	1,619	1,622	1,636	1,662	1,691	1,707	1,722	1,721	1,749
A Roads	Scotland	4,267	4,179	4,150	4,086	4,089	4,119	4,168	4,259	4,304	4,234	4,312
	GB ¹	3,678	3,601	3,585	3,531	3,510	3,552	3,587	3,654	3,673	3,704	3,724
All roads (incl. B, C and unclassified)
	Scotland	8,452	8,266	8,190	8,200	8,242	8,408	8,479	8,640	8,855	8,859	8,917
	GB ¹	8,199	8,073	8,070	8,036	8,061	8,262	8,385	8,533	8,657	8,714	8,841
Reported Road Accident Casualties: Killed or Seriously Injured ¹¹												per 1,000 population
	Scotland	0.48	0.41	0.39	0.41	0.35	0.36	0.33	0.35	0.32	0.32	0.40
	GB	0.45	0.40	0.41	0.40	0.38	0.39	0.38	0.41	0.41	0.42	0.43
Local bus passenger journeys ^{2, 4}												per head
	Scotland	88	82	82	79	79	77	76	73	72	70	67
	GB	86	85	84	82	84	82	79	77	75	74	70
Rail passenger journeys ^{4, 5, 6}												per head
	Scotland	14.6	15.1	15.7	16.1	16.3	17.1	17.4	17.4	17.9	17.8	..
	GB	17.6	19.0	20.0	20.5	21.4	22.2	23.1	23.0	23.0	23.5	..
Air terminal passengers												per head
	Scotland	4.3	4.0	4.2	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.7	5.0	5.3	5.4	5.3
	UK	3.5	3.4	3.5	3.5	3.6	3.7	3.9	4.1	4.3	4.4	4.4
Freight Lifted												tonnes per head
Road	Scotland	25.2	25.1	25.4	25.8	23.5	23.0	24.7	25.9	22.6	23.6	21.5
	UK	21.8	23.7	23.0	22.4	20.5	20.5	22.2	21.8	21.1	21.1	21.6
Rail ³	Scotland ¹²	1.9	1.6	1.9	1.6	..	..	..	..	..	0.8	0.8
	GB	1.4	1.5	1.7	1.8	1.9	1.8	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.1
Coastwise traffic	Scotland	3.8	3.4	3.1	2.4	2.1	2.2	2.6	..	..	..	..
	UK	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.0	0.0
Pipelines ⁵	Scotland	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	GB	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

1 Figures are for combined years e.g. 2011 covers 2011/12.

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 over 50km in length. 2012 figures are provisional.

9 Domestic freight estimates for 2006 to 2009 were revised on 27 October 2011. Later years have yet to be published by DfT.

10 Figures for 2008-09 onwards have been revised due to an error in the LENNON calculation of journeys between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

11 Due to changes in the the way casualty severities are recorded, killed/serious figures in 2019 are not comparable with previous years.

Table H1: Summary of passenger traffic
Year ¹	Car	Bus	Rail	Air	Ferry	Ferry	Car	Bus	Rail	Air	Ferry Selected services⁴
Year ¹	vehicle kilometres on major roads (M and A)	passenger journeys on local services ²	passenger journeys originating in Scotland³	terminal passengers at airports	passengers on routes within Scotland and to NI and Europe ⁵	passengers on selected ferry services ⁴	Car	Bus	Rail	Air	Ferry Selected services⁴
						million					Index, 1985 = 100
1960	..	1,664	64.9	1.20		..	..	248	114	17	..
1961	..	1,633	63.4	1.41		..	..	243	111	20	..
1962	..	1,579	72.3	1.59		..	..	235	127	23	..
1963	..	1,561	71.7	1.82		..	..	233	126	26	..
1964	..	1,506	73.0	2.07		..	..	224	128	30	..
1965	..	1,417	71.0	2.29		..	..	211	124	33	..
1966	..	1,344	65.8	2.56		..	..	200	115	37	..
1967	..	1,297	65.9	2.76		..	..	193	115	40	..
1968	..	1,220	67.0	2.69		..	..	182	117	39	..
1969	..	1,169	68.4	2.91		..	..	174	120	42	..
1970	..	1,057	70.7	3.10		..	..	157	124	45	..
1971	..	1,019	66.5	3.20		..	..	152	116	46	..
1972	..	998	61.2	3.64		..	..	149	107	52	..
1973	..	975	60.5	4.07		4.82	..	145	106	59	103
1974	..	896	69.1	4.00		4.96	..	134	121	58	106
1975	9,318	891	66.2	4.18		5.28	68	133	116	60	113
1976	9,438	881	60.1	4.78		5.17	69	131	105	69	111
1977	9,622	824	56.8	4.85		4.82	71	123	99	70	103
1978	9,749	794	59.7	5.90		4.64	72	118	105	85	99
1979	9,643	786	57.6	6.33		4.56	71	117	101	91	98
1980	10,262	763	61.5	6.37		4.48	75	114	108	92	96
1981	10,418	716	57.8	6.50		4.27	77	107	101	94	91
1982	10,733	694	49.5	6.37		4.19	79	103	87	92	90
1983	11,043	680	55.7	6.48		4.51	81	101	98	93	97
1984	12,794	669	51.3	6.99		4.67	94	100	90	101	100
1985	13,606	671	57.1	6.94		4.67	100	100	100	100	100
1986	14,012	644	53.1	7.24		4.85	103	96	93	104	104
1987	14,881	647	54.1	7.81		5.35	109	96	95	112	115
1988	15,946	647	54.0	8.51		5.66	117	96	95	123	121
1989	17,027	613	51.8	9.23		6.18	125	91	91	133	132
1990	17,476	585	52.8	9.86		6.54	128	87	92	142	140
1991	17,553	571	54.5	9.57		6.80	129	85	95	138	146
1992	18,068	532	59.3	10.38	9.16	6.63	133	79	104	150	142
1993	18,211	525	59.1	11.12	9.53	6.63	134	78	104	160	142
1994	18,683	513	54.4	11.79	9.64	6.65	137	76	95	170	142
1995	19,226	506	48.9	12.31	10.49	6.86	141	75	86	177	147
1996	19,888	478	49.8	13.21	9.33	5.59	146	71	87	190	120
1997	20,266	448	53.1	14.39	9.92	5.63	149	67	93	207	121
1998	20,456	424	55.1	15.19	9.64	5.33	150	63	96	219	114
1999	20,700	455	57.6	15.94	9.96	5.33	152	68	101	230	114
2000	20,566	458	57.3	16.79	9.80	5.29	151	68	100	242	113
2001	20,977	466	53.0	18.08	9.79	5.30	154	69	93	260	114
2002	21,760	471	52.4	19.78	9.97	5.33	160	70	92	285	114
2003	21,922	478	55.9	21.08	10.67	5.71	161	71	98	304	122
2004	22,308	459	61.3	22.55	10.84	5.92	164	68	107	325	127
2005	22,060	465	66.7	23.80	10.57	5.97	162	69	117	343	128
2006	22,610	476	69.8	24.44	10.59	5.40	166	71	122	352	116
2007	22,392	487	72.7	25.13	10.72	5.40	165	73	127	362	116
2008	22,221	484	76.3	24.35	10.01	5.15	163	72	134	351	110
2009	22,496	458	76.5	22.50	10.22	5.40	165	68	134	324	116
2010	21,998	430	79.4	20.91	9.99	5.37	162	64	139	301	115
2011	21,986	436	83.3	22.07	9.63	5.22	162	65	146	318	112
2012	22,170	420	85.8	22.21	9.70	5.15	163	63	150	320	110
2013	22,217	421	86.7	23.25	9.66		163	63	152	335
2014	22,418	414	91.7	24.08	9.68		165	62	..	347
2015	22,573	410	93.4	25.51	9.54		166	61	..	367
2016	23,220	395	94.2	26.92	10.07		171	59	..	388
2017	23,453	390	97.1	28.83	10.25		172	58	..	415
2018	23,470	378	97.0	29.44	10.28		172	56	..	424
2019	24,119	366	..	28.88	10.43		177	55	..	416

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 Figures from 1995 onwards were revised by ORR in 2013 due to improvements to methodology. There is a series break between 2007-08 and 2008-09 due to a change in the methodology. From 2008-09 estimates of PTE travel (zone cards) are included. Figures in 2001-02 and 2002-03 were affected by industrial action.

4 This grouping was used in STS until 2012 and includes 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.

5 All ferry routes within Scotland, between Scotland and Northern Ireland and between Scotland and Europe, for which passenger data is availabe (see chapter 9 for more detail)

Table H2: Summary of freight traffic¹
*(a) freight lifted - millions of tonnes*
Year²	Air	Road	Rail ⁸	Coastal shipping	Coast- wise shipping	Inland water- way	Pipeline ³	Total	Air	Road	Rail	Coastal shipping	Coast- wise shipping	Inland water- way	Pipeline ³
Year²	Air	lifted in Scotland	lifted in Scotland	see notes	lifted in Scotland	lifted in Scotland	see notes	Total	Air	lifted in Scotland	lifted in Scotland	see notes	lifted in Scotland	lifted in Scotland	see notes
								millions of tonnes lifted							Index, 1985 = 100
1960		..	29.8	..	..	..	..			..	248	..	..	..	..
1961		..	28.1	..	..	..	..			..	234	..	..	..	..
1962		..	24.7	..	..	..	..			..	206	..	..	..	..
1963		..	24.6	..	..	..	..			..	205	..	..	..	..
1964		..	25.4	..	..	..	..			..	212	..	..	..	..
1965		..	24.3	..	..	..	..			..	203	..	..	..	..
1966		..	21.4	..	..	..	..			..	178	..	..	..	..
1967		..	20.0	..	..	..	..			..	167	..	..	..	..
1968		..	20.9	..	..	..	..			..	174	..	..	..	..
1969		..	21.1	..	..	..	..			..	176	..	..	..	..
1970		..	20.8	..	..	..	..			..	173	..	..	..	..
1971		..	20.0	..	..	..	..			..	167	..	..	..	..
1972		..	18.1	..	..	..	..			..	151	..	..	..	..
1973		..	19.3	5.7	..	..	8.0			..	161	17	..	..	27
1974		160.7	17.9	5.7	..	..	7.5			123	149	17	..	..	25
1975		164.6	16.1	4.9	..	..	6.3			126	134	14	..	..	21
1976	..	172.0	16.2	7.0	..	..	11.9		..	132	135	20	..	..	40
1977	..	144.7	14.0	13.6	..	..	23.2		..	111	117	40	..	..	78
1978	..	149.5	13.8	18.6	..	..	26.4		..	115	115	54	..	..	89
1979	..	156.9	12.0	23.8	..	..	27.9		..	120	100	69	..	..	94
1980	..	134.7	11.7	33.5	..	8.1	26.7		..	103	98	98	..	76	90
1981	..	144.1	12.2	33.2	..	7.3	24.1		..	110	102	97	..	69	81
1982	..	135.4	10.4	34.5	..	10.4	22.4		..	104	87	101	..	98	75
1983	..	129.1	10.3	37.3	..	12.1	26.5		..	99	86	109	..	114	89
1984	..	128.3	6.4	35.6	..	10.0	26.9		..	98	53	104	..	94	90
1985	..	130.5	12.0	34.3	..	10.7	29.8		..	100	100	100	..	100	100
1986	..	128.0	9.7	32.3	..	11.0	28.2		..	98	81	94	..	103	95
1987	..	134.9	10.5	28.6	24.1	10.3	28.5	236.9	..	103	88	83	..	97	96
1988	..	155.7	9.7	31.9	28.3	10.2	25.2	261.0	..	119	81	93	..	96	85
1989	..	154.8	9.4	32.5	28.3	10.4	21.3	256.7	..	119	78	95	..	97	71
1990	..	160.6	9.8	29.9	25.2	11.9	26.9	264.3	..	123	82	87	..	112	90
1991	..	148.8	9.0	31.6	26.7	11.3	21.4	248.8	..	114	75	92	..	106	72
1992	..	157.1	7.0	30.1	25.7	10.7	24.0	254.5	..	120	58	88	..	100	81
1993	..	158.9	5.0	29.0	24.5	11.4	26.9	255.7	..	122	42	85	..	107	90
1994	..	155.8	5.4	32.0	27.5	11.2	24.1	255.9	..	119	45	93	..	105	81
1995	..	157.7	..	35.9	31.9	11.2	25.6	262.3	..	121	..	105	..	105	86
1996	..	162.4	5.4	40.3	36.2	11.1	25.6	281.0	..	124	45	117	..	104	86
1997	..	157.4	7.0	39.4	34.5	11.6	25.7	275.7	..	121	59	115	..	109	86
1998	..	155.6	7.7	45.7	39.7	10.4	28.1	287.1	..	119	64	133	..	97	94
1999⁴	..	155.8	8.2	41.3	35.3	9.5	28.0	278.1	..	119	69	120	..	89	94
2000	0.08	158.5	8.3	30.9	24.7	12.2	28.1	262.8	..	121	69	90	..	115	94
2001	0.08	150.8	9.6	27.4	20.6	11.4	28.1	248.0	..	116	80	80	..	107	94
2002	0.08	154.4	9.1	24.5	19.2	10.0	28.0	245.4	..	118	76	71	..	94	94
2003⁵	0.08	153.4	8.3	24.4	19.5	10.1	27.7	243.5	..	118	69	71	..	94	93
2004	0.08	173.7	11.3	25.8	20.5	10.0	27.6	269.0	..	133	94	75	..	94	93
2005	0.08	165.6	14.3	31.4	25.5	10.2	27.6	274.7	..	127	119	92	..	96	93
2006 ⁶	0.08	170.0	13.0	25.7	20.6	10.2	27.8	267.3	..	130	108	75	..	95	93
2007 ⁶	0.07	176.8	11.4	27.5	22.8	10.5	27.5	276.5	..	136	95	80	..	99	92
2008 ⁶	0.05	157.0	10.4	28.3	23.3	12.2	27.6	258.9	..	120	86	83	..	114	93
2009 ⁶	0.05	131.9	9.7	24.7	19.8	10.1	27.6	223.9	..	101	81	72	..	95	93
2010	0.05	131.9	8.3	23.9	18.0	10.9	27.6	220.6	..	101	69	70	..	102	93
2011 ⁷	0.05	134.8	9.9	22.6	16.3	10.7	27.8	222.2	..	103	82	66	..	100	93
2012 ⁷	0.05	137.2	8.4	11.3	12.5	10.8	28.2	208.5	..	105	70	33	..	101	95
2013 ⁷	0.05	125.0	..	16.6	11.4	10.7	..	..	..	96	..	48	..	100	..
2014 ⁷	0.06	122.9	..	17.1	11.8	9.4	..	..	..	94	..	50	..	88	..
2015 ⁷	0.06	132.7	..	..	14.2	10.3	..	..		102	..	..	..	96	..
2016 ⁷	0.06	139.9	..	..	..	..	..	..		107	..	..	..	..	..
2017	0.06	122.6	..	..	..	..	..	..		94	..	..	..	..	..
2018	0.06	128.6	4.4	..	..	..	..	..		99	..	..	..	..	..
2019	0.06	117.3	4.3	..	..	..	..	..		90	..	..	..	..	..

1. The figures for 'road', 'rail', 'coastwise shipping' and 'inland waterways' are the total amounts lifted in Scotland.

The category of 'coastal shipping' is shown for historical reasons. It is defined in a different way:

the 'coastal shipping' figure is the total lifted in Scotland plus

the total lifted elsewhere in the UK which is delivered in Scotland.

The 'pipeline' figure is the estimated amount of crude oil carried by on-shore pipelines which are over 50km in length.

This table does not show one port traffic to / from oil rigs and the sea bed.

2. The figures are all for calendar years except for the figures for 'rail' from 1985, which are for the financial years which start in the specified calendar years (e.g. the rail figures for 1997 are for 1997-98).

3. The estimated amounts of crude oil and products carried by pipelines over 50km in length. 2012 figures are provisional.

4. A new system for collecting port statistics was introduced in 2000. Data prior to that are on a different basis.

5. Changes to the methodology for collecting road freight data mean that previous figures are not comparable.

6. Domestic freight estimates for 2006 to 2009 were revised on 27 October 2011

7. Domestic freight estimates from 2011 to 2016 were revised in 2018

8. The figures from 2018 onwards are not comparable with previous figures, as they are collected in a different way.

Table H2: Summary of freight traffic¹
(b) freight moved - millions of tonne-kilometres
Year ²	Road	Rail ⁷	Coastwise shipping	Inland waterway	Pipeline ^3,6
Year ²	lifted in Scotland	lifted in Scotland	lifted in Scotland	lifted in Scotland	see notes
					millions of tonne-kilometres
1960	..	..		..	..
1961	..	..		..	..
1962	..	..		..	..
1963	..	..		..	..
1964	..	..		..	..
1965	..	..		..	..
1966	..	..		..	..
1967	..	..		..	..
1968	..	..		..	..
1969	..	..	..	..	..
1970	..	..	..	..	..
1971	..	..	..	..	..
1972	..	..	..	..	..
1973	..	..	..	..	..
1974	..	..	..	..	..
1975	..	..	..	..	..
1976	..	..	..	..	..
1977	..	..	..	..	..
1978	..	..	..	..	..
1979	..	..	..	..	..
1980	..	..	..	..	..
1981	..	..	..	..	..
1982	..	..	..	..	..
1983	..	..	..	..	..
1984	..	..	..	..	..
1985	9,706	..	..	..	..
1986	9,332	..	..	..	..
1987	10,225	..	19,810	262	..
1988	11,520	..	22,910	264	..
1989	12,339	..	23,020	268	..
1990	12,309	..	19,090	315	..
1991	11,909	..	22,850	298	..
1992	12,121	..	20,940	270	5,132
1993	12,426	..	19,710	290	..
1994	12,995	..	19,740	290	5,279
1995	13,965	..	25,110	300	5,693
1996	14,163	1,427	29,250	300	5,688
1997	14,236	2,145	26,280	310	5,717
1998	14,856	2,787	29,610	260	5,946
1999⁴	14,988	2,891	26,850	240	5,905
2000	14,817	2,462	20,100	280	5,933
2001	14,425	3,127	15,600	280	5,929
2002	14,170	2,856	14,540	240	5,909
2003⁵	14,432	2,625	14,850	240	5,832
2004	15,195	3,839	14,060	240	5,820
2005	13,507	4,345	17,457	251	5,869
2006	13,957	4,195	14,491	249	5,715
2007	14,950	3,601	16,909	268	5,726
2008	13,384	3,281	17,890	312	5,725
2009	11,652	2,912	15,321	244	5,725
2010	12,695	3,077	13,557	280	5,725
2011 ⁸	12,813	2,637	13,011	270	5,752
2012 ⁸	12,239	2,607	9,051	269	5,836
2013 ⁸	11,906	..	7,452	262	..
2014 ⁸	12,056	..	8,031	234	..
2015 ⁸	13,634	..	11,414	236	..
2016 ⁸	14,883	..	..	..	..
2017	13,130	..	..	..	..
2018	14,635	1,858	..	..	..
2019	14,139	1,804	..	..	..

1. The figures for 'road', 'rail', 'coastwise shipping' and 'inland waterways' relate to freight lifted in Scotland; for 'pipeline' it is the estimated tonne-kilometres for crude oil carried by on-shore pipelines which are over 50km in length. This table does not show the tonne-kilometres for one port traffic to / from oil rigs and the sea bed or for coastal shipping (as defined in part [a] of this table).

2. The figures are all for calendar years except for the figures for rail which are for the financial years which start in the specified calendar years (e.g. the rail figures for 1997 are for 1997-98).

3. Over 50km

4. A new system for collecting port statistics was introduced in 2000. Data prior to that are on a different basis.

5. Changes to the methodology for collecting road freight data mean that previous figures are not comparable.

6. Pipeline figures for 2012 are provisional.

7. Revisions made to rail freight from 2001 onwards due to an error in the formula for calculating the figures

Table H3: Traffic estimates
Year	Motorways	A roads	All major roads (M & A)	Minor roads (B, C & unclassif.)	All roads	Motorways	A roads	All major roads (M & A)	Minor roads (B, C & unclassif.)	All roads
					million vehicle kilometres					index 1985=100
1962	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1963	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1964	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1965	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1966	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1967	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1968	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1969	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1970	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1971	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1972	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1973	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1974	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1975	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1976	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1977	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1978	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1979	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1980	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1981	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1982	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
1983	1,742	12,443	14,185	..	..	83	82	82	..	..
1984	1,920	14,382	16,302	..	..	91	95	95	..	..
1985	2,104	15,115	17,219	..	..	100	100	100	..	..
1986	2,116	15,531	17,647	..	..	101	103	102	..	..
1987	2,541	16,226	18,767	..	..	121	107	109	..	..
1988	2,961	17,137	20,098	..	..	141	113	117	..	..
1989	3,141	18,262	21,404	..	..	149	121	124	..	..
1990	3,286	18,501	21,786	..	..	156	122	127	..	..
1991	3,200	18,747	21,947	..	..	152	124	127	..	..
1992	3,516	19,060	22,575	..	..	167	126	131	..	..
1993	4,000	18,666	22,666	12,509	35,175	190	123	132	..	..
1994	4,147	19,153	23,300	12,700	36,000	197	127	135	..	..
1995	4,318	19,670	23,987	12,749	36,736	205	130	139	..	..
1996	4,586	20,253	24,839	12,938	37,777	218	134	144	..	..
1997	4,852	20,600	25,452	13,130	38,582	231	136	148	..	..
1998	5,072	20,812	25,885	13,284	39,169	241	138	150	..	..
1999	5,164	21,021	26,185	13,585	39,770	245	139	152	..	..
2000	5,405	20,531	25,936	13,625	39,561	257	136	151	..	..
2001	5,567	20,775	26,342	13,722	40,065	265	137	153	..	..
2002	5,730	21,533	27,262	14,272	41,535	272	142	158	..	..
2003	5,856	21,826	27,682	14,356	42,038	278	144	161	..	..
2004	6,094	22,114	28,209	14,496	42,705	290	146	164	..	..
2005	6,151	21,904	28,055	14,663	42,718	292	145	163	..	..
2006	6,433	22,465	28,898	15,221	44,119	306	149	168	..	..
2007	6,577	22,408	28,986	15,680	44,666	313	148	168	..	..
2008	6,683	22,126	28,810	15,659	44,470	318	146	167	..	..
2009	6,633	22,327	28,961	15,258	44,219	315	148	168	..	..
2010 ²	6,503	21,992	28,495	15,000	43,496	309	145	165	..	..
2011 ²	6,570	21,996	28,566	14,841	43,406	312	146	166	..	..
2012 ¹ ²	7,140	21,712	28,852	14,720	43,573	339	144	168	..	..
2013 ²	7,262	21,786	29,048	14,861	43,909	345	144	169	..	..
2014 ²	7,421	22,025	29,446	15,517	44,963	353	146	171	..	..
2015 ²	7,477	22,395	29,872	15,683	45,555	355	148	173	..	..
2016 ²	7,829	23,019	30,848	15,848	46,696	372	152	179	..	..
2017 ²	8,054	23,351	31,405	16,630	48,036	383	154	182	..	..
2018 ²	8,518	23,024	31,542	16,632	48,175	405	152	183	..	..
2019 ²	8,654	23,557	32,211	16,503	48,714	411	156	187	..	..

1. The increase in motorway traffic in 2012 is the result of new motorway opening. More detail can be found in the road network chapter.

2. Estimates for the period since 2010 have been revised to take into account the minor road benchmarking exercise. Further details available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-traffic-statistics-minor-road-benchmarking

Table H4: Other vehicle related statistics
Year	Vehicles licensed	New registrations of vehicles	Reported road casualties all severities	Vehicles licensed	New registrations of vehicles	Reported road casualties
Year	thousand	thousand	number			index 1985=100
1962	775	86	26,703	51	48	98
1963	836	100	27,728	55	56	102
1964	900	117	30,527	59	65	112
1965	951	113	31,827	63	63	117
1966	991	113	32,280	65	62	118
1967	1,035	116	31,760	68	64	116
1968	1,065	119	30,649	70	66	112
1969	1,106	110	31,056	73	61	114
1970	1,124	117	31,240	74	65	114
1971	1,135	128	31,194	75	71	114
1972	1,181	161	31,762	78	89	116
1973	1,252	173	31,404	83	96	115
1974	1,274	143	28,783	84	79	105
1975	1,304	154	28,621	86	85	105
1976	1,314	159	29,933	87	88	110
1977	..	155	29,783	..	86	109
1978	1,308	179	30,506	86	99	112
1979	1,353	185	31,387	89	102	115
1980	1,398	176	29,286	92	97	107
1981	1,397	166	28,766	92	92	105
1982	1,416	171	28,273	94	95	104
1983	1,448	193	25,224	96	107	92
1984	1,489	183	26,158	98	101	96
1985	1,514	181	27,287	100	100	100
1986	1,546	181	26,117	102	100	96
1987	1,575	187	24,748	104	103	91
1988	1,657	200	25,425	109	111	93
1989	1,729	213	27,532	114	118	101
1990	1,788	194	27,228	118	107	100
1991	1,830	154	25,346	121	85	93
1992	1,884	154	24,173	124	85	89
1993	1,874	170	22,414	124	94	82
1994	1,900	170	22,573	125	94	83
1995	1,910	173	22,194	126	96	81
1996	1,966	183	21,716	130	101	80
1997	2,023	206	22,629	134	114	83
1998	2,073	210	22,467	137	116	82
1999	2,131	216	21,002	141	120	77
2000	2,188	220	20,518	145	122	75
2001	2,262	241	19,911	149	134	73
2002	2,330	259	19,275	154	144	71
2003	2,383	262	18,756	157	145	69
2004	2,448	263	18,502	162	145	68
2005	2,531	251	17,885	167	139	66
2006	2,564	243	17,269	169	134	63
2007	2,627	251	16,239	174	139	60
2008	2,665	215	15,592	176	119	57
2009	2,684	216	15,043	177	120	55
2010	2,685	209	13,338	177	116	49
2011	2,691	202	12,785	178	112	47
2012	2,717	216	12,712	179	120	47
2013	2,759	241	11,492	182	133	42
2014	2,821	262	11,302	186	145	41
2015	2,863	268	10,977	189	148	40
2016	2,919	270	10,898	193	150	40
2017	2,962	250	9,433	196	138	35
2018	2,991	233	8,424	198	129	31
2019	3,041	221	7,638	201	122	28

1. The figures for vehicles licensed for 1974 to 1978 are on different bases, due to the effect on the annual 'census' of the transfer of licensing records from local offices to the then DVLC

2. For years up to 1992 estimates are taken from the DVLA annual vehicle census, from 1993 onwards estimates are taken from the Vehicle Information Database and are not consistent with previous years.

The VID figure for 1992 was 1,840,000 compared with the DVLA figure of 1,884,000.

3. New registration results to 1994 are taken from geographical analysis provided by DVLA. Results for 1995 onwards are estimated using post town area data. The vehicle taxation system was subject to major revisions from July 1995.

4. DfT has revised the figures for the light goods and goods body types back to 2001. DfT does not have the underlying data to revise earlier years' figures.

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