This document is the third of a new series of bulletins, and updates the main statistics on personal travel in Great Britain from 1998 to 2000. This National Travel Survey (NTS) consists of data from the latest three years of the continuous survey that began in July 1988. From January 1998 to December 2000, individuals in 9390 households completed a 7-day travel diary, covering all journeys over 50 yards long. The respondents gave details of journey purpose, length, mode, and time of day, and some personal information. This bulletin covers: (1) the sampling methodology used; (2) trends in personal travel; (3) how people travel; (4) why people travel; and (5) other factors affecting travel. It also gives tables of travel in different regions and reference tables of travel by mode and purpose. It lists 21 key points about British travel in 1997-99. For example, residents travelled an average of 6843 miles a year, an increase of 6% since 1989-91, mainly due to increasing average journey length. Car travel accounted for about 80% of the total distance travelled; overall the distance travelled by car increased by 9% in the 1990s. The proportion of primary school children taken to school by car increased from 27% to 36%. The proportion of rural households with 'good' access to a bus service increased from 35% to 47%.
Abstract