Table SUM2: Summary of Transport in Scotland

Table SUM2: Summary of Transport in Scotland

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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)3 458 430 436 420 421 414 407 393 388 380 366
Vehicle Kilometres3 377 346 338 327 332 336 338 335 333 334 ..
Passenger Revenue            £ million
at latest year's prices3  749 713 717 732 717 700 722 721 701 694 ..
Freight Lifted           million tonnes
Road 4, 9 131 131 134 136 124 122 131  138  121  127  115 
Rail 2 9.69 8.33 9.87 8.43 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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 201.8 197.7 201.1 198.5 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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           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 ..
A roads  22,327 21,992 21,996 21,712 21,786 22,025 22,395 23,019 23,353 23,023 ..
All roads (incl. B, C, uncl.) 44,219 43,488 43,390 43,549 43,840 44,839 45,374 46,459 47,986 48,137 ..
  Reported Road Accident Casualties 12,13                  
Killed 216  208  185 176 172 203 168 191 145 161 168
Killed and Serious   2,503    2,177  2,063 2,157 1,839 1,904 1,770 1,888 1,739 1,743 2,169
All (Killed, Serious, Slight)    15,043     13,338     12,785  12,712     11,492  11,302 10,977 10,897 9,433 8,411 7,594
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
Ferries8           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 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 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 Changes in the layout of the M74/M77/M8 during 2012 are likely to have affected the traffic data for motorways. Provisional

14  1999 to 2008 results can be viewed by unhiding columns E to M.

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