Publication - Statistics

Scottish Transport Statistics No 29: 2010 Edition

Published: 20 December 2010
ISBN: 9780755998449

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.

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Table 5.1 Traffic by road class and type

*Major roads (M and A)*
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
	million vehicle kilometres
Motorways	5,164	5,405	5,567	5,730	5,856	6,094	6,151	6,433	6,577	6,683	6,633
Trunk A roads
Urban ^*	886	899	905	892	916	938	922	966	928	942	952
Rural ^*	8,412	8,029	8,238	8,714	8,827	8,944	8,834	8,976	9,042	8,878	8,960
Total	9,299	8,928	9,143	9,605	9,743	9,882	9,756	9,942	9,970	9,820	9,913
Non-trunk A roads
Urban ^*	4,476	4,472	4,416	4,541	4,499	4,604	4,551	4,595	4,505	4,493	4,530
Rural ^*	7,247	7,132	7,216	7,387	7,583	7,629	7,598	7,928	7,933	7,813	7,885
Total	11,723	11,604	11,632	11,927	12,083	12,233	12,149	12,523	12,438	12,307	12,415
All A roads
Urban ^*	5,362	5,370	5,321	5,433	5,416	5,541	5,473	5,561	5,433	5,435	5,482
Rural ^*	15,659	15,161	15,454	16,100	16,410	16,573	16,431	16,904	16,975	16,692	16,845
Total	21,021	20,531	20,775	21,533	21,826	22,114	21,904	22,465	22,408	22,127	22,327
All major roads	26,185	25,936	26,342	27,262	27,682	28,209	28,055	28,898	28,986	28,810	28,961
*Minor roads (B, C and unclassified)*
B roads
Urban ^*	1,387	1,347	1,320	1,321	1,332	1,334	1,336	1,312	1,335	1,315	1,283
Rural ^*	2,438	2,430	2,410	2,489	2,490	2,549	2,589	2,647	2,734	2,748	2,661
Total	3,825	3,777	3,730	3,809	3,822	3,883	3,925	3,959	4,069	4,063	3,944
C roads
Urban ^*	759	756	761	783	790	791	798	810	832	825	1,036
Rural ^*	1,448	1,458	1,462	1,534	1,536	1,570	1,589	1,630	1,717	1,725	1,681
Total	2,207	2,214	2,223	2,317	2,326	2,361	2,387	2,440	2,549	2,550	2,718
Unclassified roads
Urban ^*	5,491	5,550	5,672	5,931	5,989	5,987	6,034	6,147	6,301	6,254	5,906
Rural ^*	2,062	2,084	2,097	2,215	2,219	2,266	2,317	2,676	2,762	2,792	2,690
Total	7,553	7,634	7,769	8,146	8,208	8,253	8,351	8,823	9,062	9,046	8,596
All minor roads
Urban ^*	7,637	7,653	7,753	8,034	8,111	8,111	8,168	8,269	8,468	8,394	8,225
Rural ^*	5,948	5,971	5,969	6,238	6,245	6,385	6,495	6,952	7,212	7,266	7,033
All minor roads	13,585	13,625	13,722	14,272	14,356	14,496	14,663	15,221	15,680	15,659	15,258
*All roads*
Motorways	5,164	5,405	5,567	5,730	5,856	6,094	6,151	6,433	6,577	6,683	6,633
Urban ^*	12,999	13,024	13,074	13,467	13,527	13,653	13,641	13,830	13,901	13,829	13,708
Rural ^*	21,607	21,133	21,424	22,338	22,655	22,958	22,926	23,857	24,187	23,957	23,878
All roads	39,770	39,561	40,065	41,535	42,038	42,705	42,718	44,119	44,666	44,470	44,219

Source: Department for Transport - Not National Statistics
* DfT's classification of urban and rural roads differs from the built up/non-built up classification - see section 3.1.4 of the text.

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Table 5.1 Traffic by road class and type

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