Scottish Transport Statistics: No 26

Scottish Transport Statistics: No 26 - 2007 Edition

International comparisons

				Scottish figure on the same (or a similar) basis ( # )	Belgium	Czech Republic	Denmark	Germany	Estonia	Greece	Spain	France	Ireland	Italy	Cyprus	Latvia	Lithuania	Luxembourg	Hungary	Malta	Netherlands	Austria	Poland	Portugal	Slovenia	Slovak Republic	Finland	Sweden	UK	GB (in these cases, the EU publication's figures relate to GB)	EU-25 ( + )	EU-15 ( + )	Scotland	GB (same basis)	UK (same basis)
	Year of data for all (or most) countries	Other year(s) - for some countries	EU publication table	Scottish figure on the same (or a similar) basis ( # )	EU countries from " EU Energy and Transport in Figures" (2006 edition)																												Scottish figures ^{( # )}
				SCOT	BE	CZ	DK	DE	EE	EL	ES	FR	IE	IT	CY	LV	LT	LU	HU	MT	NL	AT	PL	PT	SI	SK	FI	SE	UK	GB	EU-25	EU-15	SCOT	GB	UK
General data
Population (at 1 Jan)
million	2006		1.1	5.09	10.51	10.25	5.43	82.44	1.35	11.13	43.77	61.05	4.21	58.75	0.77	2.30	3.40	0.46	10.08	0.40	16.33	8.27	38.16	10.57	2.00	5.39	5.26	9.05	60.39		461.69	387.60	5.095	58.486	60.210
Area
'000 sq km			1.1	77.9	30.5	78.9	43.1	357.0	45.2	132.0	506.0	544.0	70.3	301.3	9.3	64.6	65.2	2.6	93.0	0.3	41.5	83.9	312.7	91.9	20.3	48.8	338.1	450.0	244.1		3,974.60	3,236.30	77.925	228.937	242.514
Population density (at 1 Jan)
people per sq km	2006		calc'd	65	345	130	126	231	30	84	86	112	60	195	82	36	52	177	108	1,347	394	99	122	115	99	110	16	20	247		116	120	65	255	248
Infrastructure and vehicles
Motorways
km	2004		3.5.1	386	1,747	546	1,027	12,174	96	742	10,747	10,383	192	6,532	268	0	417	147	569	0	2,342	1,677	552	2,100	483	316	653	1,650	3,638		58,998§	55,751§	386	3,478
km per '000 sq km	2004		calc'd	5.0	57.3	6.9	23.8	34.1	2.1	5.6	21.2	19.1	2.7	21.7	28.8	0.0	6.4	56.5	6.1	0.0	56.4	20.0	1.8	22.9	23.8	6.5	1.9	3.7	14.9		14.8	17.2	5.0	15.2
All roads ( @ )
'000 km	2004	varies	3.5.2	56.7	150.6	127.8	72.3	644.4	53.0	113.8	165.2	1,001.0	95.8	668.7	8.9	59.4	79.3	2.9	160.8	2.1	125.9	106.1	377.7	79.4	20.2	17.8	103.9	139.8	416.2		4,791.5§	3,884.7§	56.715	387.674
km per '000 sq km	2004	varies	calc'd	728	4,937	1,620	1,676	1,805	1,172	862	326	1,840	1,363	2,219	953	920	1,217	1,113	1,729	6,953	3,034	1,265	1,208	864	995	364	307	311	1,705		1,206	1,200	728	1,693
Railways
Km	2004		3.5.4	2,729	3,536	9,612	2,785	34,732	971	2,449	14,395	29,246	1,919	16,236	0	2,270	1,782	275	7,950	0	2,811	5,675	20,250	2,849	1,229	3,660	5,741	11,050	16,514		197,826	150,213	2,729	16,116
Km per '000 sq km	2004		calc'd	35.0	115.9	121.8	64.6	97.3	21.5	18.6	28.4	53.8	27.3	53.9	0.0	35.1	27.3	105.8	85.5	0.0	67.7	67.6	64.8	31.0	60.5	75.0	17.0	24.6	67.7		49.8	46.4	35.0	70.4
Passenger cars
million	2005	04	3.6.2	2.14	4.92	3.96	1.97	46.09	0.49	4.38	20.25	30.50	1.66	34.67	0.36	0.74	1.46	0.31	2.89	0.21	7.09	4.16	12.34	4.20	0.94	1.30	2.43	4.15	28.33		219.79§	195.09§	2.1388	27.5200
Per 1,000 pop'n	2005	04	3.6.1	420	468	386	362	559	367	393	463	500	395	590	463	324	428	669	287	526	434	503	323	397	471	242	462	459	469		476§§§	503§§§	420	471
New registrations of passenger cars ( $ )
thousands	2005		3.6.6	203	480	152	147	3,319	20	270	1,529	2,068	172	2,237	18	17	11	49	199	7	465	308	236	207	59	57	148	274	2,440		14,980	14,112	202.9	2443.5
Per 1,000 pop'n	2005		calc'd	40	46	15	27	40	15	24	35	34	41	38	23	7	3	105	20	16	28	37	6	20	30	11	28	30	40		32	36	40	42
Powered two wheelers ( $ )
thousands	2005	04	3.6.5	56	346	794	172	5,530	10	1,133	1,806	2,480	34	9,207	40	25	24	38	123	12	553	628	754	419	49	56	272	453	1,235		26,192§	24,305§	56.4	1,075.0
Goods vehicles
thousands	2005		3.6.4	241	652	439	470	2,765	86	1,211	4,655	6,115	287	4,180	118	113	122	30	428	44	1,005	783	2,305	1,500	70	174	364	461	3,454		31,831§	27,932§	241	3,452
Per 1,000 pop'n	2005		calc'd	47	62	43	87	34	64	109	106	100	68	71	154	49	36	65	42	109	62	95	60	142	35	32	69	51	57		69	72	47	59
Passenger transport
Distance travelled (kilometres per person per year)
Passenger cars	2004		3.3.4 *	8,838	10,617	6,594	9,617	10,540	7,138	6,112	8,109	12,071	5,940	12,189	4,569	4,619	7,582	13,261	4,614	3,960	8,963	9,932	4,757	6,339	7,988	4,509	11,587	10,722		11,593	9,656	8,754\|	8,838	9,304
Powered two-wheelers	2002		prev. **	27	100	0	144	217	0	2,013	334	201	93	1,188	0	0	0	130	0	0	55	198	0	754	0	0	171	111		85	339	391\|	27	59
Buses and coaches	2004		3.3.5 *	996	1,617	1,483	1,345	822	1,859	1,942	1,222	696	1,568	1,699	1,567	1,220	1,087	1,739	1,806	1,238	710	1,827	789	1,022	499	1,466	1,446	984		821	1,087	957\|	996	769
Tram / metro	2004		3.3.6 *	0	86	849	18	182	74	135	133	201	24	104	0	174	0	0	238	0	92	423	118	76	0	56	95	221		147	163	129\|	0	109
Railways (excl. t/m)	2004		3.3.7 *	676	828	644	1,087	881	149	153	464	1,217	380	776	0	349	118	652	1,012	0	863	1,028	482	350	399	408	628	984		728	762	695\|	676	719
Cycling	2001		prev. **	42	322	n-a	936	291	n-a	76	20	75	184	154	n-a	n-a	n-a	23	n-a	n-a	848	136	n-a	29	n-a	n-a	251	271	75		n-a	188\|	42	60
Walking	2001		prev. **	315	380	n-a	431	372	n-a	389	368	404	368	410	n-a	n-a	n-a	457	n-a	n-a	377	419	n-a	342	n-a	n-a	386	383	355		n-a	382\|	315	322
Total these modes	c. 2003		calc'd	10,895	13,950	n-a	13,578	13,305	n-a	10,820	10,649	14,867	8,556	16,519	n-a	n-a	n-a	16,263	n-a	n-a	11,908	13,964	n-a	8,911	n-a	n-a	14,564	13,675	==>	13,804	n-a	11,497\|	10,895	11,342
Modal shares (% of total pass-kms for specified modes)
Passenger cars	2004		3.3.3	84.1	80.8	68.9	79.6	84.8	77.7	73.3	81.7	85.1	75.3	82.5	73.8	72.9	86.3	85.6	60.1	75.6	84.3	75.1	77.4	81.4	90.2	70.0	84.1	83.0		87.2	82.8	..	84.1	85.3
Bus and coach	2004		3.3.3	9.5	12.3	15.5	11.1	6.6	20.0	23.3	12.3	4.9	19.7	11.5	26.2	19.1	12.3	10.8	23.6	24.4	6.7	13.8	12.8	13.1	5.5	22.7	10.5	7.6		6.2	9.3	..	9.5	7.1
Railways (excl. t/m)	2004		3.3.3	6.4	6.3	6.7	9.0	7.1	1.6	1.8	4.7	8.6	4.8	5.3	0.0	5.6	1.5	3.6	13.2	0.0	8.1	7.8	7.9	4.5	4.3	6.4	4.6	7.6		5.5	6.5	..	6.4	6.6
Tram / metro	2004		3.3.3	0.0	0.7	8.9	0.2	1.5	0.8	1.6	1.3	1.4	0.2	0.7	0.0	2.4	0.0	0.0	3.1	0.0	0.9	3.2	1.9	1.0	0.0	0.9	0.7	1.7		1.1	1.4	..	0.0	1.0
Total these modes	calc'd			100.0	100.1	100.0	99.9	100.0	100.1	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.1	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.9	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.9	99.9		100.0	100.0	..	100.0	100.0
International air passenger traffic between EU countries (arrivals plus departures
million	2005		3.4.1	7.34	13.30	7.22	13.03	66.01	0.74	20.07	77.00	40.71	18.13	40.96	5.13	0.69	0.76	1.33	4.49	2.49	25.32	11.43	5.22	12.37	0.60	0.53	7.24	12.81	106.86		494.46§	466.58§	7.341		116.44
per head of pop'n	2005		calc'd	1.44	1.27	0.70	2.40	0.80	0.55	1.80	1.76	0.67	4.31	0.70	6.70	0.30	0.22	2.90	0.45	6.16	1.55	1.38	0.14	1.17	0.30	0.10	1.38	1.42	1.77		1.07	1.20	1.44		1.93
Road fatalities
number	2005	04	3.7.1	286	1,089	1,286	331	5,361	168	1,614	4,442	5,339	399	5,426	102	442	760	46	1,278	17	750	768	5,444	1,247	258	560	371	440	3,336		43,556§§	30,959§	286	3,201
per million pop'n	2005		calc'd	56	104	125	61	65	125	145	101	87	95	92	133	193	223	100	127	42	46	93	143	118	129	104	71	49	55		94	80	56	55
Freight transport: modal shares (% of total tonne-kms)
Road	2005		3.2.4c *	57.9	70.3	71.5	76.6	63.8	35.4	96.9	92.1	74.6	98.4	86.3	100.0	26.6	48.5	92.6	64.6	100.0	61.3	56.4	59.6	94.7	77.5	60.3	76.5	64.0		83.4	72.6	74.8	57.9	82.6
Rail	2005		3.2.5 *	16.0	13.0	24.5	6.6	19.6	64.6	2.6	4.6	14.8	1.6	9.3	0.0	62.7	38.1	4.2	23.3	0.0	3.6	29.0	26.7	5.3	22.5	25.3	23.3	36.0		11.1	16.5	13.7	16.0	11.2
Inland waterway	2005		3.2.6 *	1.1	13.8	0.2	0.0	13.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.2	5.4	0.0	30.7	2.7	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.2	0.0		0.1	5.4	7.2	1.1	0.8
Pipeline	2005		3.2.7 *	25.0	2.9	3.8	16.8	3.4	0.0	0.4	3.4	7.3	0.0	4.4	0.0	10.8	13.4	0.0	6.7	0.0	4.3	11.9	13.5	0.0	0.0	14.1	0.0	0.0		5.4	5.5	4.4	25.0	5.5
Total these modes	2005		calc'd	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Road traffic volumes (vehicle-kilometres)
'000 million	2003	02 etc	TSGB	42.0	75.4	n-a	47.1	655.5	7	70.4	236.3	556.9	34.2	466.0	n-a	n-a	7.9	4.0	23.3	n-a	108.2	50.3	142.9	57.0	10.3	1.6	49.8	60.2		490.5	n-a	2,961.8§	42.038	490.5
per head of pop'n	2003		calc'd	8,251	7,173		8,677	7,951	5,204	6,328	5,399	9,123	8,125	7,932				8,696	2,312		6,624	6,085	3,745	5,393	5,142		9,475	6,654		8,387		7,641	8,251	8,387
'000 per km of road	2003		calc'd	741	501		652	1,017	132	619	1,431	556	357	697				1,382	145		859	474	378	718	510		480	430		1,265		762	741	1,265

( # ) ( + ) ( $ ) ( @ ) ( * ) ( ** ) ( TSGB ) - see "footnotes"

( # )	These are the "nearest available" figures for Scotland, and comparable figures for GB or UK as a whole. The text describes the basis of these figures. These may be on a different basis from those for the European countries, and for the UK as a whole, that are given in the other columns.
( + )	Not necessarily as shown in the EU publication, which may give totals only for years for which figures are available for all countries. The figures which appear on a shaded background were calculated by the Scottish Executive. They are INDICATIVE figures. They are calculated thus:
§	= the total of the figures shown for each country, so may be for a mixture of years, and may assume a value of zero for those countries for which figures are "n-a".
§§	= the EU publication's total for all countries for which there are figures for the latest year + an earlier year's figure for each country which does not have figures for the latest year
§§§	= overall EU "per 1,000 pop'n" figures calculated from EU totals of figures for a mixture of years, because the EU publication does not give any overall EU figures for the latest year
( @ )	The definitions of road types vary from country to country. Some countries' figures may include the lengths of some roads which do not have a hard surface.
( $ )	The notes on the sources of the statistics explain why there appears to be a large inconsistency between the EU publication's figure for the UK and the ( DfT) figure for GB
( * )	Actually calculated from the figures in that table, which gives the total number of passenger/tonne-kilometres for the country as a whole (in 100/1000 millions)
( ** )	As shown in (or as calculated from figures in) a previous edition - the "2006" edition does not provide any figures for powered two-wheelers, cycling or walking
n/a or 0	In general, "n-a" is used where a figure is not available, and "0" is used where a figure is nil. However, "n-a" may be treated as if it were 0 for the purpose of some calculations.
( TSGB )	Not shown in the EU publication: obtained from Table 10.4 of "Transport Statistics Great Britain". In cases where that table shows the volume of one of the "smaller" types of traffic (goods vehicles, motorcycles etc, and buses and coaches) as "n-a" for the latest year, the Scottish Executive has calculated the overall total volume of traffic by assuming that the volume of that type of traffic is zero - or is the same as in the previous year shown in the " TSGB" table (in those cases for which the " TSGB" table shows estimates of the volume of that type of traffic for that country for an earlier year, but not for the latest year). In the case of countries for which there are no figures for "cars and taxis" for the latest year shown in the latest edition of " TSGB", the estimated volume of traffic has been left as it appeared in the previous edition of "Scottish Transport Statistics" - so the figures relate to an earlier year than those of the other countries.

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