Table Sum 2 Summary of Transport in Scotland

Transport and Travel in Scotland Results from the Scottish Household Survey

Table Sum 2 Summary of Transport in Scotland

Summary
Numbers
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Vehicles Licensed thousands
Private and Light Goods 1 2,347 2,362 2,364 2,369 2,395 2,436 2,496 2,537 2,594 2,638 2,665
All Vehicles 1 2,665 2,684 2,685 2,691 2,717 2,759 2,821 2,863 2,919 2,962 2,991
New Registrations 215 216 209 202 216 241 262 268 270 250 233
Local Bus Services2 millions
Passenger Journeys (boardings)3 484 458 430 436 420 421 414 407 394 388 377
Vehicle Kilometres3 386 377 346 338 327 332 336 338 335 333 ..
Passenger Revenue £ million
at latest year's prices3 732 733 698 706 716 704 688 699 708 684 ..
Freight Lifted million tonnes
Road 4, 9 157.0 131.9 131.9 134.8 137.2 125.0 122.9 132.7 139.9 122.6 128.6
Rail 2 10.36 9.69 8.33 9.87 8.43 .. .. .. .. .. ..
Coastwise traffic 23.3 19.8 18.0 16.3 12.5 11.4 11.8 14.2 .. .. ..
One Port traffic 1.75 3.59 1.88 2.42 2.57 2.10 2.19 .. .. .. ..
Inland waterway traffic 12.19 10.10 10.89 10.70 10.79 10.69 9.41 10.14 9.42 .. ..
Pipelines 5 27.6 27.6 27.6 27.8 28.2 .. .. .. .. .. ..
Total 232.2 202.7 198.6 201.9 199.7 .. .. .. .. .. ..
Public Road Lengths kilometres
Trunk (A and M)10 3,505 3,520 3,518 3,536 3,566 3,565 3,637 3,638 3,669 3,681 3,735
Other Major (A and M) 7,421 7,421 7,414 7,467 7,473 7,473 7,406 7,414 7,418 7,427 7,500
Minor Roads 44,418 44,591 44,694 44,769 44,873 44,938 45,011 45,100 45,163 45,257 45,106
All Roads10 55,344 55,532 55,626 55,772 55,912 55,975 56,054 56,152 56,250 56,364 56,341
Road Traffic million vehicle-kilometres
Motorways 11 6,683 6,633 6,503 6,570 7,140 7,262 7,421 7,477 7,829 8,054 8,518
A roads 22,126 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.) 44,470 44,219 43,488 43,390 43,549 43,840 44,839 45,374 46,459 47,986 48,137
Reported Road Accident Casualties
Killed 270 216 208 185 176 172 203 168 191 145 160
Killed and Serious 2,845 2,503 2,177 2,063 2,157 1,839 1,904 1,770 1,888 1,738 1,741
All (Killed, Serious, Slight) 15,592 15,043 13,338 12,785 12,712 11,492 11,302 10,977 10,896 9,433 8,402
Passenger Rail 2,6 millions
ScotRail passenger journeys 6 76.4 76.9 78.3 81 83.3 86.3 92.7 93.2 94.2 97.8 97.8
ORR data:
Rail journeys in/from Scotland 7 76.3 76.5 79.4 83.3 85.8 86.7 91.7 93.4 94.2 97.1 ..
Passenger receipts (2017 £mill) 390.5 429.1 444.6 455.7 473.5 487.6 512.6 531.49 537.3 610.6 ..
Air Transport thousands
Terminal Passengers 24,348 22,496 20,907 22,065 22,207 23,250 24,076 25,507 26,924 28,833 29,443
Transport Movements 417.1 382.7 354.4 366.3 372.1 376.4 376.2 376.4 376.0 383.9 376.6
thousand tonnes
Freight 50.2 50.9 47.5 45.2 52.2 54.2 59.9 56.4 55.9 60.3 62.3
Ferries 8 thousands
Passengers 10,014 10,219 9,990 9,631 9,698 9,662 9,679 9,554 10,073 10,255 10,279
Vehicles 3,056 3,135 3,072 3,071 3,076 2,972 3,074 3,146 3,372 3,467 3,456
of which on routes within Scotland
Passengers 8,001 8,272 8,016 7,773 7,888 7,831 7,884 7,824 8,320 8,501 8,529
Vehicles 2,569 2,648 2,554 2,551 2,628 2,577 2,626 2,706 2,930 3,060 3,043

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.

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