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Table 12.17 (a) Average time taken to travel to usual place of work (in Autumn)
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
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minutes |
Car,van,minibus,works van | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 20 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 21 |
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Bicycle | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 16 |
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Bus,coach.private bus | 31 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 32 |
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Rail (inc Underground) | 58 | 42 | 55 | 53 | 52 | 47 | 46 | 48 | 46 | 49 |
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Walk | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 |
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Other (inc taxi) | 34 | 33 | 45 | 33 | 47 | 42 | 46 | 25 | 36 | 40 |
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All | 22 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 24 | 21 | 23 | 22 |
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Note: This table is no longer being updated. Henceforth, information about average times taken to travel to work will be given in Table 12.17 (b), which is on the basis that is used to produce such figures for DfT's "Regional Transport Statistics".
Table 12.17 (b) Average time taken to travel to usual place of work (in Autumn)
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
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minutes |
Car | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 23 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 23 |
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Motorcycle | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | * | 17 | 16 | 19 | * |
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Bicycle | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 14 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 21 |
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Bus/coach | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 34 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 35 |
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Rail | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 46 | 50 | 52 | 49 | 50 |
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Walk | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
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Other | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 53 | 39 | 62 | 61 | 70 |
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All | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 24 | 24 | 25 | 24 | 25 |
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* Sample size too small.
Note: Some of the figures shown in table 12.17 (b) differ slightly from those in 12.17 (a) due to differing methodology used to extract.
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