Buses: Passengers

(asked on 27th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of passengers per public bus journey in England in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 29th March 2018

The table below gives the average bus occupancy on local bus services in England from 20014/15 to 2016/17.

Average bus occupancy1 on local bus services: England, 2014/15 to 2016/17

Year

Average bus occupancy

2014/15

12.2

2015/16

11.9

2016/17

11.9

1 Calculated as passenger miles divided by vehicle miles.

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