Travel
(asked on 18th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what predictions are made by the National Transport Model from 2015 onwards for the (a) average number of trips and stages made annually per person in England and (b) average length of trips by transport mode in the (i) low, (ii) medium and (iii) high growth scenarios.
Forecasts of trip by mode and distance were last published by the Department in Road Transport Forecasts 2011 at
The Department has more recently in 2013 produced estimates for the whole of GB using the National Transport Model (NTM). The trip information has not been published but is set out in the tables below.
Average Trips per person annually by mode (GB, RTF13 central forecast)
Annual trips
| Walk
| Cycle
| Car Driver
| Car Pgr
| Bus
| Rail
| Total
|
2015
| 307.4 | 22.1 | 447.6 | 231.8 | 86.3 | 24.4 | 1,119.7 |
2020
| 302.4 | 21.1 | 465.3 | 225.8 | 80.0 | 23.7 | 1,118.2 |
2025
| 298.0 | 20.1 | 483.8 | 219.0 | 73.3 | 22.9 | 1,117.2 |
2030
| 295.7 | 19.9 | 491.6 | 214.0 | 71.2 | 23.4 | 1,115.8 |
2035
| 291.4 | 20.5 | 500.8 | 212.4 | 66.4 | 23.1 | 1,114.6 |
2040
| 290.2 | 20.5 | 507.0 | 211.8 | 64.0 | 23.7 | 1,117.2 |
Average length of trips by mode (GB, RTF13 central forecast)
miles
| Walk
| Cycle
| Car Driver
| Car Pgr
| Bus
| Rail
| Total
|
2015
| 0.8 | 2.5 | 9.0 | 9.9 | 7.8 | 24.7 | 7.0 |
2020
| 0.8 | 2.4 | 9.1 | 10.0 | 7.9 | 24.7 | 7.1 |
2025
| 0.8 | 2.3 | 9.2 | 10.1 | 8.1 | 24.6 | 7.2 |
2030
| 0.8 | 2.3 | 9.2 | 10.1 | 8.0 | 24.7 | 7.3 |
2035
| 0.8 | 2.2 | 9.2 | 10.1 | 8.2 | 24.7 | 7.3 |
2040
| 0.8 | 2.2 | 9.2 | 10.1 | 8.5 | 24.8 | 7.4 |
Notes on the tables:
- These are for personal trips based on main mode of travel. The NTM does not produce mode information for different stages of the same trip.
- These forecasts are based on the central forecast in the Road Traffic Forecasts 2013 (see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-transport-forecasts-2013. NTM forecasts of trips by mode for the high and low demand scenarios have not been produced.
- The NTM Road Traffic Forecasts should not be viewed as what we think will actually happen in the future, or what we want the future to look like. They are based on our understanding of the way people make travel choices, the expected path of the key drivers at the time the forecast is made and assume no change in government policy beyond that already announced.
- The forecasts do not account for the Departments Cycling Delivery Plan, as this is still in development.
- The NTM is not the Department’s primary forecasting tool for Rail. Therefore the forecasts may not match with Rail forecasts the Department has published elsewhere.