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 SGB1 Comparisons of Scotland and Great Britain (or the UK) - numbers
Numbers
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vehicles Licensed (all vehicles) |
thousand |
||||||||||
Scotland |
2,131 |
2,188 |
2,262 |
2,330 |
2,383 |
2,448 |
2,531 |
2,587 |
2,648 |
2,688 |
2,707 |
GB |
28,368 |
28,898 |
29,747 |
30,557 |
31,207 |
32,259 |
32,897 |
33,369 |
33,957 |
34,206 |
34,258 |
Households with a Car 1 (National Travel Survey) |
percent |
||||||||||
Scotland |
.. |
.. |
.. |
68 |
.. |
68 |
.. |
69 |
.. |
72 |
.. |
GB |
.. |
.. |
.. |
73 |
.. |
75 |
.. |
75 |
.. |
75 |
.. |
Public Road Lengths (all roads) |
thousand kilometres |
||||||||||
Scotland 2 |
53.5 |
53.9 |
54.1 |
54.6 |
54.5 |
54.5 |
54.8 |
54.9 |
55.1 |
55.2 |
55.4 |
GB3 |
389.5 |
390.2 |
391.0 |
391.6 |
392.3 | |
387.7 |
388.0 |
398.4 |
398.9 |
394.5 |
394.4 |
Road Traffic |
billion vehicle kilometres |
||||||||||
Mororway |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
5.16 |
5.41 |
5.57 |
5.73 |
5.86 |
6.09 |
6.15 |
6.43 |
6.58 |
6.68 |
6.65 |
GB |
87.8 |
88.4 |
90.8 |
92.6 |
93.0 |
96.6 |
97.0 |
99.4 |
100.6 |
100.1 |
99.5 |
A roads |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
21.0 |
20.5 |
20.8 |
21.5 |
21.8 |
22.1 |
21.9 |
22.5 |
22.4 |
22.1 |
22.3 |
GB4 |
212.6 |
211.7 |
215.1 |
218.6 |
221.0 |
224.1 |
223.1 |
226.1 |
224.9 |
222.8 |
222.4 |
All roads (incl. B, C, unclassified) |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
39.8 |
39.6 |
40.1 |
41.5 |
42.0 |
42.7 |
42.7 |
44.1 |
44.7 |
44.5 |
44.2 |
GB4 |
467.0 |
467.1 |
474.4 |
486.5 |
490.4 |
498.6 |
499.4 |
507.5 |
513.0 |
508.9 |
504.0 |
Reported Road Accident Casualties: Killed or Seriously Injured |
thousand |
||||||||||
Scotland 2 |
4.08 |
3.89 |
3.76 |
3.53 |
3.29 |
3.07 |
2.95 |
2.95 |
2.67 |
2.84 |
2.49 |
GB |
42.5 |
41.6 |
40.6 |
39.4 |
37.2 |
34.4 |
32.2 |
31.8 |
30.7 |
28.6 |
26.1 |
Local bus passenger journeys 3,5 |
million |
||||||||||
Scotland |
455 |
458 |
466 |
471 |
478 | |
461 |
468 |
482 |
498 |
493 |
467 |
GB |
4,376 |
4,420 |
4,455 |
4,550 |
4,681 | |
4,587 |
4,664 |
4,890 |
5,137 |
5,244 |
5,188 |
Rail passenger journeys 5,6 |
million |
||||||||||
Scotland |
64.9 |
64.8 |
64.6 |
61.4 |
66.1 |
72.9 |
78.1 |
79.5 |
87.7 |
84.5 |
.. |
GB |
748 |
755 |
759 |
775 |
791 |
808 |
827 |
984 |
1,018 |
1,082 |
.. |
Air terminal passengers |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
15.9 |
16.8 |
18.1 |
19.8 |
21.1 |
22.6 |
23.8 |
24.4 |
25.1 |
24.3 |
22.5 |
UK |
168.4 |
179.9 |
181.2 |
188.8 |
200.0 |
215.7 |
228.2 |
235.2 |
240.7 |
235.4 |
218.1 |
Freight Lifted |
million tonnes |
||||||||||
Road 7 |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
156 |
159 |
151 |
154 |
153 |
173 |
166 |
174 |
182 |
164 |
139 |
GB |
1,567 |
1,593 |
1,581 |
1,627 |
1,643 | |
1,744 |
1,746 |
1,813 |
1,869 |
1,734 |
1,422 |
Rail 5,7 |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
8.24 |
8.25 |
9.57 |
9.12 |
8.32 |
11.25 |
14.32 |
12.96 |
11.35 |
10.36 |
.. |
GB |
92 |
95 |
94 |
87 |
89 | |
100 |
105 |
108 |
102 |
103 |
.. |
Coastwise traffic |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
35.3 | |
24.7 |
20.6 |
19.2 |
19.5 |
20.5 |
25.5 |
20.6 |
22.8 |
23.3 |
19.8 |
UK |
73.0 | |
63.1 |
58.5 |
59.5 |
58.5 |
59.8 |
65.1 |
56.7 |
57.6 |
58.1 |
54.6 |
Pipelines 8 |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
28.0 |
28.1 |
28.1 |
28.0 |
27.7 |
27.6 |
27.6 |
27.8 |
27.5 |
27.6 |
27.6 |
GB |
64.8 |
63.6 |
63.0 |
58.4 |
54.9 |
56.1 |
55.4 |
54.5 |
53.1 |
53.3 |
53.3 |
Travel to Work (Autumn: Labour Force Survey) |
percent |
||||||||||
Car (or van, minibus, works van) |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
69 |
67 |
69 |
70 |
70 |
69 |
68 |
69 |
69 |
69 |
70 |
GB |
70 |
70 |
70 |
71 |
71 |
71 |
71 |
70 |
69 |
70 |
70 |
Public transport (bus, rail, underground) |
|||||||||||
Scotland |
15 |
16 |
16 |
15 |
15 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
16 |
16 |
14 |
GB |
14 |
14 |
15 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
15 |
15 |
1 Figures are are for combined years e.g. 2008 covers 2008/09.
2 Provisional.
3 DfT revised its methodlogy from 2004, causing a break in the series.
4 The GB figures relate to motor vehicle traffic only, and therefore exclude a small amount of pedal cycle traffic.
5 Financial years
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