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Table Sum 2: Summary of Transport in Scotland
Numbers
SUMMARY
  2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Vehicles Licensed thousands
Private and Light Goods 1 2,313 2,347 2,362 2,364 2,369 2,395 2,436 2,496 2,537 2,594 2,638
All Vehicles 1   2,627 2,665 2,684 2,685 2,691 2,717 2,759 2,821 2,863 2,919 2,962
New Registrations 251 215 216 209 202 216 241 262 268 270 250
Local Bus Services2 millions
Passenger Journeys (boardings)3 487 484 458 430 436 420 421 414 407 393 380 12
Vehicle Kilometres3 397 386 377 346 338 327 332 328 331 327 ..
Passenger Revenue  £ million
at latest year's prices3  687 712 712 679 685 695 685 668 679 688 ..
Freight Lifted million tonnes
Road 4, 9 176.8 157.0 131.9 131.9 134.8 137.2 125.0 122.9 132.7  139.9  122.6 
Rail 2 11.35 10.36 9.69 8.33 9.87 8.43 .. .. .. .. ..
Coastwise traffic 22.8 23.3 19.8 18.0 16.3 12.5 11.4 11.8 14.2 .. ..
One Port traffic 1.83 1.75 3.59 1.88 2.42 2.57 2.10 2.19 .. .. ..
Inland waterway traffic 10.50 12.19 10.10 10.89 10.70 10.79 10.69 9.41 10.14 9.42 ..
Pipelines 5 27.5 27.6 27.6 27.6 27.8 28.2 .. .. .. .. ..
Total 250.8 232.2 202.7 198.6 201.9 199.7 .. .. .. .. ..
Public Road Lengths kilometres
Trunk (A and M)10 3,505 3,505 3,520 3,518 3,536 3,566 3,565 3,637 3,638 3,669 3,681
Other Major (A and M) 7,381 7,421 7,421 7,414 7,467 7,473 7,473 7,406 7,414 7,418 7,427
Minor Roads 44,300 44,418 44,591 44,694 44,769 44,873 44,938 45,011 45,100 45,163 45,257
All Roads10 55,186 55,344 55,532 55,626 55,772 55,912 55,975 56,054 56,152 56,250 56,364
Road Traffic million vehicle-kilometres
Motorways 11 6,577 6,683 6,633 6,503 6,570 7,140 7,262 7,421 7,477 7,829 8,054
A roads  22,408 22,126 22,327 21,992 21,996 21,712 21,786 22,025 22,395 23,019 23,353
All roads (incl. B, C, uncl.) 44,666 44,470 44,219 43,488 43,390 43,549 43,840 44,839 45,374 46,459 47,986
Reported Road Accident Casualties
Killed  281   270   216   208  185 176 172 203 168 191 146
Killed and Serious 2,666  2,845  2,503  2,177  2,065 2,157 1,841 1,905 1,769 1,890 1,726
All (Killed, Serious, Slight) 16,239  15,592  15,043  13,338  12,786  12,712  11,495  11,306 10,973 10,905 9,391
Passenger Rail 2,6 millions
ScotRail passenger journeys 6 74.5 76.4 76.9 78.3 81 83.3 86.3 92.7 93.2 94.2 97.8
ORR data:
Rail journeys in/from Scotland 7 72.7 76.3 76.5 79.4 83.3 85.8 86.7  91.7  93.4  94.2  ..
Passenger receipts (2016 £mill) 375.7 377.1 414.3 429.3 440.0 457.2 470.8 495.0 513.2  518.9 ..
Air Transport thousands
Terminal Passengers 25,132 24,348 22,496 20,907 22,065 22,207 23,250 24,076 25,507 26,924 28,833
Transport Movements 428.2 417.1 382.7 354.4 366.3 372.1 376.4 376.2 376.4 376.0 383.9
thousand tonnes
Freight 66.1  50.2  50.9  47.5  45.2  52.2  54.2 59.9 56.4 54.4 ..
Ferries 8 thousands
Passengers 10,671 10,014 10,219 9,990 9,631 9,698 9,662 9,679 9,554 10,073 10,255
Vehicles 3,246 3,056 3,135 3,072 3,071 3,076 2,972 3,074 3,146 3,372 ..
of which on routes within Scotland
Passengers 8,466 8,001 8,272 8,016 7,773 7,888 7,831 7,884 7,824 8,320 8,501
Vehicles 2,712 2,569 2,648 2,554 2,551 2,628 2,577 2,626 2,706 2,930 3,060

1 DfT has revised the figures for the light goods and goods body types back to 2001. DfT does not have the underlying data to revise earlier years' figures.

2 Financial years

3 The DfT have revised figures from 2004/05 onwards as a result of methodological improvements. Figures prior to this period are not directly comparable.
See Chapter 2 for more detail.  Figures from 2006 include Government support for buses which is not available for the two previous years.

4 Freight lifted in Scotland by UK-registered hauliers, regardless of whether the destination is in Scotland, elsewhere in the UK or outwith the UK.
The figures for 2004 onwards are not compatible with those for earlier years due to changes in methodology and processing system for the survey.

5 The estimated amounts of crude oil and products carried by pipelines over 50km in length. 2012 figures are provisional.

6 ScotRail introduced a new methodology which better estimates Strathclyde Zonecard journeys from 2009/10. Figures from 2003/04 onwards  present the impact of this on previously reported data to provide a more meaningful year on year comparison. Note that this has no impact on actual journeys undertaken.

7 The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) produce total passenger figures. These are not adjusted to reflect ScotRail's revised methdology and are therefore  not comparable with ScotRail figures.  There is a series break between 2007-08 and 2008-09 due to a change in the methodology. 
From 2008-09 estimates of PTE travel (zone cards) are included.

8 Services to Europe, Northern Ireland and within Scotland (Previous versions of STS only included services where data is available back to 1975, this can still be found in Table H1). Figures for passenger numbers on the Corran ferry service in 2013, 2014 and 2015 have not been included in the total for Scotland as the figures are new estimates and considered as ‘data under development'.

9 Domestic freight estimates for 2006 to 2009 were revised on 27 October 2011. 

10 Totals have been revised in  2012 to include slip roads on Trunk A roads which had previously excluded.
See Road Network chapter for more information. 

11 Changes in the layout of the M74/M77/M8 during 2012 are likely to have affected the traffic data for motorways.

12 Provisional figure.