Scottish Transport Statistics: No 26

Scottish Transport Statistics: No 26 - 2007 Edition

Table S2 Summary of Transport in Scotland - index numbers

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
	Index 1996=100
Vehicles Licensed
Private and Light Goods	100.0	102.6	105.3	108.3	111.2	115.2	118.7	121.4	124.5	128.7	131.4
All Vehicles	100.0	102.9	105.4	108.4	111.3	115.0	118.5	121.2	124.5	128.7	131.5
New Registrations	100.0	112.3	114.7	118.1	120.4	131.8	141.7	143.4	143.6	137.2	132.7
Local Bus Services ^{$ #}
Passenger Journeys (boardings)	100.0	93.8	88.7\|	95.2	95.8	97.5	98.5	99.9	100.2	99.8	100.9
Vehicle Kilometres	100.0	100.0	97.3\|	98.6	100.3	100.0	101.6	100.3	97.0	97.0	102.4
Passenger Receipts at latest year's prices	100.0	99.2	98.0	100.6	104.8	99.0	105.9	104.0	107.8	106.7	114.5
Freight Lifted
Road ¹	100.0	96.9	95.8	95.9	97.6	92.9	95.1	94.5\|	106.6	102.0	106.2
Rail ^2,$	100.0	129.7	141.6	151.7	151.9	176.2	168.0	153.2	207.2	257.6	..
Coastwise traffic *	100.0	95.3	109.7	97.5\|	68.2	56.9	53.0	53.9	56.6	70.5	55.5
One Port traffic	100.0	104.8	68.4	61.3	36.6	45.1	43.0	36.6	31.6	41.8	35.2
Inland waterway	100.0	104.9	93.6	85.5	110.5	103.0	90.3	90.8	90.0	92.0	91.7
Pipelines ⁴	100.0	100.4	109.6	109.5	109.9	109.9	109.5	108.2	108.0	107.8	108.6
Toll Bridges ⁴
Forth Bridge	100.0	103.5	102.0	107.3	108.8	111.0	114.7	117.8	115.6	116.9	116.2
Tay Bridge	100.0	101.6	103.2	105.1	107.2	108.6	111.7	115.3	118.5	118.7	117.7
Erskine Bridge	100.0	113.5	121.9	127.3	134.1	135.9	145.0	148.1	154.2	153.1	..
Skye Bridge	100.0	102.5	107.2	108.7	110.3	108.8	117.3	123.5	125.7	..	..
Public Road Lengths ⁵
Trunk (A and M)	100.0	99.0	100.0	100.3	100.6	100.6	100.6	99.0	99.0	99.0	98.2
Other Major (A and M)	100.0	100.2	100.3	100.4	100.8	100.7	100.8	100.8	100.8	101.0	100.9
Minor Roads	100.0	100.2	100.5	101.0	101.7	102.1	103.4	103.3	103.4	103.9	104.2
All Roads	100.0	100.1	100.5	100.8	101.5	101.8	102.9	102.7	102.8	103.2	103.4
Road Traffic
Motorways	100.0	105.8	110.6	112.6	117.9	121.4	124.9	127.7	132.9	134.1	140.5
A roads	100.0	101.7	102.8	103.8	101.4	102.6	106.3	107.8	109.2	108.2	111.6
All roads (incl. B, C, uncl.)	100.0	102.1	103.7	105.3	104.7	106.1	109.9	111.3	113.0	113.1	116.2
Road Accident Casualties
Killed	100.0	105.6	107.8	86.8	91.3	97.5	85.2	94.1	86.3	80.1	88.0
Killed and Serious	100.0	100.6	101.3	92.7	88.5	85.4	80.3	74.9	69.9	67.1	66.8
All (Killed, Serious, Slight)	100.0	104.2	103.5	96.7	94.5	91.7	88.8	86.4	85.2	82.3	79.5
Passenger Rail Services ^$
ScotRail passenger journeys	100.0	106.2	110.3	116.8	119.5	115.0	108.6	117.9	130.1	142.2	146.3
Journeys originating in Scotland	100.0	105.6	108.6	112.9	112.7	112.3	106.7	114.9	126.8	135.8	..
Receipts at latest year's prices	100.0	105.8	109.5	114.8	111.3	114.7	112.6	118.5	125.5	125.9	..
Air Transport
Terminal Passengers	100.0	108.9	115.0	120.6	127.0	136.8	149.7	159.6	170.7	180.1	184.9
Transport Movements	100.0	105.0	107.8	109.3	112.1	121.3	121.9	123.5	129.7	137.5	141.4
Freight	100.0	124.1	141.6	151.5	153.0	148.5	148.9	156.8	159.1	152.8	159.7
Ferries (selected services ⁶ )
Passengers	100.0	100.8	95.4	95.3	94.7	94.9	96.0	102.4	105.9	106.8	107.7
Vehicles	100.0	99.7	98.0	97.4	99.9	103.3	105.9	107.5	114.2	116.4	117.1

3. The estimated amounts of crude oil and products carried by pipelines over 50km in length.
4. One-way tolls were introduced for Tay bridge (1 June 1991) and Forth bridge (1 September 1997) so figures after these dates have been estimated by the Scottish Executive. Tolls were removed from the Skye bridge on 21 December 2004 and from the Erskine bridge on 31 March 2006.
5. At 1 April.
6. Those services for which figures are (at least) available back to 1975: Caledonian MacBrayne, P&O Scottish Ferries / NorthLink Orkney & Shetland, and Orkney Ferries.
7. Figures are provisional

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