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1. Main points
1.1 In the two-year period 2005 and 2006, 68% of households had one or more cars available for private use. The figure was highest in rural areas (85-86%) and lowest in large urban areas (58%). 24% of households had two or more cars, rising to around 40% in "accessible" rural areas. The Council areas with the highest 2+ car household percentages were Aberdeenshire (39%) and East Renfrewshire (43%); lowest were Dundee (14%) and Glasgow (10%). ( Section 3)
1.2 The percentage of households without a car was highest in Glasgow (54%) and Dundee (47%), and lowest in Aberdeenshire (14%) and East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Perth & Kinross, Moray and Shetland (all 18-20%). ( Section 3)
1.3 66% of people aged 17 or over had a full driving licence. The figure was lowest in large urban areas (58%) and highest in rural areas (79-80%). It ranged from 47% in Glasgow and 54% in Dundee to 83% in Aberdeenshire and 79% in East Renfrewshire, Perth & Kinross and Shetland. ( Section 4.2)
1.4 41% of people aged 17 or over drove every day: 53% in "accessible" rural areas and 49% in "remote" rural areas, compared with only 33% in large urban areas. The figure ranged from 25-29% in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow to 57% in Aberdeenshire and 51-54% in East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire and Moray. ( Section 4.3)
1.5 17% of people aged 17+ drove in congested traffic at least 3 times per week - but the figure was only 5% for those living in "remote" rural areas, and only 9% in "remote" small towns. It was highest (24-30%) in Aberdeen City, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Midlothian, and South Lanarkshire. ( Section 4.5) 20% of adults said that they were "very concerned" by the increase in the amount of traffic on Scotland's roads, with the figure ranging from 8% in Dumfries & Galloway, Orkney and Shetland to 30-32% in East Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire. ( Section 4.6)
1.6 67% of commuters usually travelled to work by car or van: 60% as the driver, 7% as a passenger. The percentage driving to work was highest for commuters from "accessible" rural areas (76%) and "remote" rural areas (73%), and lowest for large urban areas and "remote" small towns (both 51-52%). Travelling to work by car or van was lowest for commuters who lived in Edinburgh (48%) and Glasgow (53%) and highest in Aberdeenshire, Shetland, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian (all 77-80%). ( Section 7.4)
1.7 43% of commuters who travelled by car or van said that they could use public transport. The percentage was highest for those living in large urban areas (54%) and for Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire (all 55-59%). However, 80% of car/van commuters living in "remote" rural areas said that they could not use public transport, as did 88% of car/van commuters in Orkney and 77-78% in Dumfries & Galloway and Shetland. ( Section 7.6)
1.8 13% of commuters walked to work, rising to 26% of those who lived in "remote" small towns. Argyll & Bute, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee and Scottish Borders had the highest percentages (20-25%). The bus was the usual means of travel to work for 12% of commuters - but for 18% of those living in large urban areas, and the highest percentages were in Edinburgh (27%) and Glasgow and Midlothian (both 20%). ( Section 7.4)
1.9 11% of employed adults worked at or from home. The percentage was highest in "remote" rural areas (26%), and in Orkney (26%) and Highland (20%). ( Section 7.5).
1.10 Walking was the usual method of travel to school for 52% of pupils, 23% went by bus and 21% by car or van. About three-fifths of pupils in towns and cities walked to school, compared with under 30% in rural areas. The percentage travelling by bus was 13-21% in towns and cities, and 46-55% in rural areas. There was less variation in the use of the car, the different types of areas' figures being between 16% and 22%. ( Section 8)
1.11 82% of people aged 60+ held a concessionary travel pass, ranging from 67% in "remote" rural areas to 85-87% in urban areas, and from 63-66% for Dumfries & Galloway, Orkney and Stirling to 90-91% for Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire. 4% of people aged 60+ had a pass and used it "every day". This figure was highest in Edinburgh and Glasgow (9-10%). About 13% had a pass and used it either "every day" or "almost every day" - this figure was highest in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire (20-27%). 28% of people aged 60+ had a pass but did not use it. This figure was lowest (21%) in large urban areas, and highest (36-38%) in "remote" small towns and "remote" rural areas. ( Section 5.8)
1.12 About 4% of householders said that they had no bus service or were at least 14 minutes walk away from the nearest bus stop (or place where one could get on a bus). However, the figure was about 26% in "remote" rural areas, and around 15% in "accessible" rural areas. Orkney (34%), Shetland (18%), Aberdeenshire (17%) and Highland (15%) had the highest percentages. ( Section 5.1)
1.13 24% of householders did not know the frequency of their nearest bus service, with the figure ranging from 11% in Aberdeen and Edinburgh to 34-38% in Argyll & Bute, Eilean Siar, Moray, Scottish Borders, Shetland and West Lothian. ( Section 5.2)
1.14 Public transport was described as "very convenient" by 61% of adults in large urban areas, but by only 24% in "remote" rural areas: there, 20% said that it was "very inconvenient", and a further 14% felt that it was "fairly inconvenient". The "very convenient" percentage was highest in Aberdeen (76%), Edinburgh, Glasgow and Renfrewshire (all 62-63%); and the "very inconvenient" percentage was highest in Orkney (22%), Aberdeenshire, Highland, Scottish Borders and Shetland (all 12-16%). ( Section 5.4)
1.15 12% of adults had used their local bus service "every day, or almost every day". This figure was highest in large urban areas (18%) and lowest in "remote" rural areas (3%); it was 25% in Edinburgh and 19% in Glasgow. 44% of adults had used a local bus service in the past month. Again, the figure was highest in large urban areas (58%) and lowest in "remote" rural areas (20%): it was 74% in Edinburgh and 60% in Glasgow - but only 9% in Orkney and 18% in Shetland. ( Section 5.5)
1.16 19% of adults had used a train in the past month: 32-38% in East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire. ( Section 5.5)
1.17 In general, users' views on eleven aspects of bus services did not vary much with the type of area. The exceptions were the percentages who agreed that: "the buses are on time" (which ranged from 71% in large urban areas to 88% in "remote" rural areas); "the buses are frequent" (from 57% in "remote" rural areas to 85% in other urban areas); "the service runs when I need it" (60% in "remote" rural areas to 78% in other urban areas); "the buses are clean" (72% in large urban areas to 90% in "remote" small towns); and "it's easy changing to other forms of transport" (57% in "remote" rural areas to 76% in other urban areas). Only 55% of bus users in Glasgow agreed that "the buses are clean"; only 29% of bus users in Dumfries & Galloway and 45% in Scottish Borders agreed that "it's easy changing to other forms of transport"; and only 47-50% of bus users in Aberdeen and Clackmannanshire agreed that "the fares are good value". ( Section 5.6)
1.18 Overall, 8% of adults felt, or would feel, "not safe at all" from crime when travelling by bus in the evening. This figure was highest in Dundee (22%) and Angus and West Dunbartonshire (18-19%); it was only 2-3% in "remote" small towns and "remote" rural areas. ( Section 5.7)
1.19 17.5% of adults had heard of Traveline Scotland. Awareness was lowest in Shetland (5.2%), Orkney (6.9%) and Dundee City, East Ayrshire and Eilean Siar (9.0-9.3%); and highest in East Lothian (35%) and Midlothian (28%). 4.7% of adults said that they had used it. Usage was lowest in Eilean Siar, Orkney and Shetland (0.5-1.5%) and highest in East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian and Midlothian (8.2-9.4%). ( Section 6.1)
1.20 53% of adults had made a trip of more than a quarter of a mile by foot to go somewhere in the previous seven days, but only 38-40% in rural areas had done so. The figure was highest in Edinburgh and Midlothian (both 66%) and lowest in Eilean Siar (20%) and Aberdeenshire (35%). However, 61% of adults in "remote" rural areas said that they had walked for pleasure or to keep fit in the seven days before the interview. The overall figure was 46%: it ranged from 32-38% in Clackmannanshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde and North Lanarkshire to 69% in Moray and 60-65% in Argyll & Bute, East Ayrshire, Highland, Perth & Kinross and Stirling. ( Section 6.4)
1.21 35% of households had one or more bicycles that adults could use. The figure ranged from 18-21% in Dundee and Glasgow to 56% in Moray and 51-53% in Aberdeenshire, Angus and Highland. ( Section 3). 3% of adults said that they had cycled more than a quarter of a mile to go somewhere in the previous seven days. The figure was highest in Highland (9%). 4% of adults had cycled for pleasure or to keep fit in the previous seven days - again, the highest figure (10%) was in Highland. ( Section 6.5)
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