Bus Services

(asked on 27th November 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of (a) the average mileage of buses and (b) bus passenger numbers in the last (i) 12 months, (ii) two years, (iii) five years and (iv) 10 years.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 3rd December 2024

The number of vehicle miles and passenger journeys on local bus services is available in the Annual Bus Statistics. In the table below we have calculated the average annual vehicle miles and passenger journeys on local bus services in England for the past year, past two year, past five year and past ten year periods, where the past year is the year ending March 2024.

Past year

Past two years

Past five years

Past ten years

Average annual vehicle mileage (millions)

1,009

1,007

1,039

1,133

Average annual passenger Journeys (millions)

3,629

3,504

3,096

3,771

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