Scottish Transport Statistics No 29: 2010 Edition
Has figures on (e.g.) road vehicles, traffic, accidents, bus and rail passengers, road and rail freight, air and water transport, finance, personal travel and international comparisons.
Table SGB3 Comparisons of Scotland and Great Britain (or UK) - relative to the population
Relative to the population
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vehicles Licensed (all vehicles) |
per 100 population |
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Scotland |
42 |
43 |
45 |
46 |
47 |
48 |
50 |
51 |
51 |
52 |
52 |
GB |
50 |
51 |
52 |
53 |
54 |
55 |
56 |
57 |
57 |
57 |
57 |
Public Road Lengths (all roads) |
kilometres per 1,000 population |
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Scotland 1 |
10.6 |
10.6 |
10.7 |
10.8 |
10.8 |
10.7 |
10.8 |
10.7 |
10.7 |
10.7 |
10.7 |
GB |
6.8 |
6.8 |
6.8 |
6.8 |
6.8 |
6.7 |
6.6 |
6.8 |
6.7 |
6.6 |
6.6 |
Road Traffic |
vehicle kilometres per head |
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Motorway |
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Scotland |
1,018 |
1,068 |
1,099 |
1,134 |
1,158 |
1,200 |
1,207 |
1,257 |
1,279 |
1,293 |
1,281 |
GB |
1,542 |
1,547 |
1,583 |
1,610 |
1,608 |
1,662 |
1,659 |
1,689 |
1,699 |
1,679 |
1,658 |
A Roads |
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Scotland |
4,145 |
4,055 |
4,102 |
4,260 |
4,316 |
4,355 |
4,299 |
4,390 |
4,356 |
4,281 |
4,299 |
GB2 |
3,733 |
3,706 |
3,750 |
3,800 |
3,820 |
3,856 |
3,815 |
3,842 |
3,798 |
3,738 |
3,706 |
All roads (incl. B, C and unclassified) |
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Scotland |
7,841 |
7,814 |
7,911 |
8,217 |
8,312 |
8,409 |
8,385 |
8,622 |
8,683 |
8,604 |
8,513 |
GB2 |
8,200 |
8,176 |
8,270 |
8,456 |
8,477 |
8,578 |
8,539 |
8,624 |
8,663 |
8,537 |
8,400 |
Road Accident Casualties Killed or Seriously Injured 2 |
per 1,000 population |
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Scotland |
0.80 |
0.77 |
0.74 |
0.70 |
0.65 |
0.61 |
0.58 |
0.58 |
0.52 |
0.55 |
0.48 |
GB |
0.75 |
0.73 |
0.71 |
0.68 |
0.64 |
0.59 |
0.55 |
0.54 |
0.52 |
0.48 |
0.43 |
Local bus passenger journeys 3,4 |
per head |
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Scotland |
90 |
90 |
92 |
93 |
94 |
91 |
92 |
94 |
97 |
95 |
90 |
GB |
77 |
77 |
78 |
79 |
81 |
79 |
80 |
83 |
87 |
88 |
86 |
Rail passenger journeys 4,5 |
per head |
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Scotland |
12.8 |
12.8 |
12.8 |
12.1 |
13.1 |
14.4 |
15.3 |
15.5 |
17.1 |
16.3 |
.. |
GB |
13.1 |
13.2 |
13.2 |
13.5 |
13.7 |
13.9 |
14.1 |
16.7 |
17.2 |
18.2 |
0.0 |
Air terminal passengers |
per head |
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Scotland |
3.1 |
3.3 |
3.6 |
3.9 |
4.2 |
4.4 |
4.7 |
4.8 |
4.9 |
4.7 |
4.3 |
UK |
2.9 |
3.1 |
3.1 |
3.2 |
3.4 |
3.6 |
3.8 |
3.9 |
3.9 |
3.8 |
3.5 |
Freight Lifted |
tonnes per head |
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Road |
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Scotland |
30.7 |
31.3 |
29.8 |
30.5 |
30.3 |
34.1 |
32.5 |
33.9 |
35.3 |
31.7 |
26.8 |
GB |
27.5 |
27.9 |
27.6 |
28.3 |
28.4 |
30.0 |
29.9 |
30.8 |
31.6 |
29.1 |
23.7 |
Rail 4 |
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Scotland |
1.6 |
1.6 |
1.9 |
1.8 |
1.6 |
2.2 |
2.8 |
2.5 |
2.2 |
2.0 |
.. |
GB |
1.6 |
1.7 |
1.6 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.7 |
1.8 |
1.8 |
1.7 |
1.7 |
.. |
Coastwise traffic |
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Scotland |
7.0 | |
4.9 |
4.1 |
3.8 |
3.9 |
4.0 |
5.0 |
4.0 |
4.4 |
4.5 |
3.8 |
UK |
1.2 | |
1.1 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
1.1 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
Pipelines 6 |
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Scotland |
5.5 |
5.6 |
5.6 |
5.5 |
5.5 |
5.4 |
5.4 |
5.4 |
5.3 |
5.3 |
5.3 |
GB |
1.1 |
1.1 |
1.1 |
1.0 |
0.9 |
1.0 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
1 Provisional
2 The GB figures relate to motor vehicle traffic only, and therefore exclude a small amount of pedal cycle traffic.
3 Bus patronage figures are provisional and should be treated with caution. See note 1 of Table S1.
4 Financial Year
5 Rail patronage trend presented here does not incorporate Scotrail's revised methodology. See notes to Table S1.
6 Pipeline figures for 2009 are estimated.
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