Scottish Transport Statistics No 29: 2010 Edition

Table 2.2 Passenger journeys (boardings) by type of service ^1,2

1. 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 who did not pay cash ( e.g. those using season tickets, concessionary fare passes, return halves of tickets, etc). These revisions increased the passenger numbers by between 2.4% and 4.4% per year, depending upon the year (as the proportion of cash fares has been declining, the adjustments to the more recent figures tended to be greater).
2. Figures for passenger journeys on other (non-local) services are no longer collected.
3. Break in the local bus series due to changes in the estimation methodology from 2004/05