| 2. Main Points |
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| 2.1 The
National Travel Survey results for 1995/97 suggest that
an average Scottish resident travelled around 6,700 miles
per year (or about 18 miles per day) within Great
Britain. This is much more than ten or twenty years
earlier: since 1985/86, this average has risen by almost
2,100 miles (44%); and there has been an increase of over
2,500 miles (60%) since 1975/76. The cause is not so much
people travelling more often (the average number of
journeys per person per year has risen by only 16% since
1975/76) as people going further when they do travel (the
average length of a journey was 38% higher in 1995/97
than in 1975/76). |
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| 2.2 The
average time spent travelling per person increased by 21%
from 289 hours per year (or 48 minutes per day) in
1975/76 to 350 hours per year (58 minutes per day) in
1995/97. |
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| 2.3 In
1995/97, cars accounted for over three quarters (78%:
5,200 miles) of the total distance travelled per person.
No other mode of travel accounted for more than 10%:
"local bus" had the next highest share (6%: 400
miles). Surface rail accounted for just 4% (under 250
miles) |
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| 2.4 Cars
accounted for 95% of the increase since 1985/86 in the
average distance travelled per person per year. |
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| 2.5 Shopping
was the most frequent purpose of travel in 1995/97,
accounting for 22% of the average of over 1,000 journeys
per person per year. Commuting or business purposes
accounted for 20% of journeys. |
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| 2.6 Men made
6% more journeys each, on average, than women. "Car
driver" was the main mode of travel for men,
accounting for 68% of the distance they covered in
1995/97, whereas only 36% of the distance travelled by
women was as a car driver. |
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| 2.7 In
1995/97, people in the highest quintile income group
averaged 16% more than the overall average number of
journeys per person per year; people in the lowest
quintile income group averaged 17% fewer journeys than
the overall average. |
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| 2.8 People
in households with cars averaged 10% more than the
overall average number of journeys per person per year;
people in households without a car averaged 24% fewer
journeys than the overall average. |
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