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PREFACE
Introduction and Years Covered
This is the 2005 edition of
"Scottish Transport Statistics", and is the twenty
fourth publication in the series. In most cases, this
volume provides figures for the years up to 2004, or up to
the 2003-04 financial year. However, in some cases, the
latest statistics available at the time of going to press
were for an earlier year, or for a later year. In cases
where figures for two years have become available since the
previous edition was published, they are given for both
years.
Where tables cover a run of years, the aim is that they
should provide figures for eleven years (
e.g. for each year from 1994 to 2004,
inclusive) to enable the reader to see how the latest
year's figure compares with that of ten years earlier.
However, this is not always possible.
The Structure of the Publication
First comes a "Summary" section, containing information
about all modes of transport, which provides a compact view
of the trends over the past 10-or-so years, some
comparisons with the figures for Great Britain (or the
UK) as a whole, and the longer-term
trends (in some cases, as far back as 1960) in some key
statistics.
This is followed by 12 chapters, each on a specific
topic, each starting with these sections:
- Introduction - coverage, and changes to the tables
and charts;
- Main Points - key statistics, and some of the more
interesting points;
- Notes and Definitions - background, insights and
qualifications;
- Sources - descriptions of the sources of the
statistics;
- Further Information -
e.g. other publications, and
contacts.
The "International Comparisons" section then compares
some figures for Scotland with those for the other
EU countries, and with the figures for
the
EU as a whole.
Finally, there are some other short sections,
including:
- brief notes on some recent transport research
projects;
- details of other Scottish Executive Transport
Statistics publications; and
- a description of what is available from the
SE Transport Statistics Web site (in
due course, this will include updated versions of some
of this edition's tables and charts).
Main Changes in this Edition
Nine new tables have been added, and some existing
tables changed, to provide additional information. Details
of the changes made in this edition are given at the start
of each chapter. A list of the new and revised tables
appears overleaf. The main improvements include:
- two new tables of passenger journeys using national
rail tickets
- three new tables from the National Travel
Survey
- an index to the tables in Chapters 1 to 12.
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