Transport and Travel in Wales, Comparisons with Great Britain, 2011

Statistics on Great Britain Comparisons include data for England, Scotland and Wales for the period up to the end of December 2011. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 18 October 2011.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Wales represents 6 per cent of the road traffic in Great Britain, 5 per cent of the road vehicles licensed, 2 per cent of the bus passenger journeys and 1 per cent of the terminal airport passengers.
• Wales has a higher proportion of people using a car, van or minibus to travel to work (81 per cent in 2011) than England (67 per cent) or Scotland (69 per cent).
• Wales represents 5 per cent of total road casualties in Great Britain, 5 per cent of killed and seriously injured (KSI) casualties and 5 per cent of child (aged 0-15) KSI casualties.
• Over the three years 2008 to 2010, average total expenditure for Welsh households was £394 per week, some 84 per cent of the UK average of £467 per week.
• Within this total, Welsh households spent an average of £52 per week on transport items, just over 13 per cent of total expenditure.
• It is estimated that three quarters of people aged 17 and over in Wales have a full driving licence, compared with 73 per cent in England and 69 per cent in Scotland.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5062
E-mail: stats.transport@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

October 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on Due Out Soon page)