High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Journeys by Public or Active Transport
The Scottish Household Survey shows that although the percentage of people travelling by car/van has increased to 69 per cent, the number of driver journeys has increased and the number of passenger journeys has decreased in 2007.
The Scottish Government has established a National Indicator to increase the proportion of journeys to work made by public or active transport. The indicator records the mode of transport by which adults say they usually travel to work. This is a proxy measure for 'journeys to work that are not car dependent'. The baseline for the indicator is taken from the 2006 data, where 67.1 per cent of journeys were by car or van.
Results from 1999-2006 are based on a sample of around 6,000 adults per year who travel to work; results from 2007 are based on a sample of around 5200. Changes of +/- 1.5 percentage-points or greater are statistically significant.
Source: Scottish Household Survey
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