SCOTTISH TRANSPORT STATISTICS No 20: 2001 Edition: page 50


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Table 6.2 Traffic on major roads by vehicle type ¹

	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
million vehicle kilometres
Cars	17,476	17,553	18,068	18,315	19,161	20,131\|	19,416	19,564	20,309	20,081	19,923
Two wheeled motor vehicles	121	115	115	107	113	130\|	130	131	123	139	135
Buses	330	340	348	334	329	336\|	345	331	339	338	328
Light goods vehicles²	1,873	1,949	1,986	1,967	2,158	2,315\|	2,362	2,402\|	2,896	2,890	2,848
Heavy goods vehicles²	1,932	1,945	2,007	1,998	2,127	2,278\|	2,185	2,199\|	1,886	1,945	1,920
All motor vehicle traffic	21,731	21,903	22,523	22,721	23,892	25,189\|	24,437	24,627	25,552	25,392	25,153
Pedal cycles	55	44	51	49	50	58\|	50	48	44	41	41
All traffic on major roads	21,786	21,947	22,575	22,770	23,942	25,247\|	24,487	24,676	25,597	25,433	25,195

1. The figures for 1995 (and earlier years) are not directly comparable to the figures for 1996 (and later years), as is explained in the text.
2. There is a discontinuity in these figures between 1997 and 1998, as is explained in the text.

Table 6.3 Traffic by road class and speed limit (major roads only) and vehicle type, 2000

	Cars	Two wheeled motor vehicles	Buses	Light goods vehicles	Heavy goods vehicles	All motor vehicles	Pedal cycles	All vehicle traffic	Percentage of all roads
million vehicle kilometres
Major roads
Motorways	4,156	12	44	556	566	5,334	0	5,334	12.3
Trunk A roads - limit up to 40 mph	579	4	8	81	48	720	1	721	1.7
Trunk A roads - limit over 40 mph	6,223	42	77	919	783	8,044	5	8,049	18.6
Non-trunk A roads - limit up to 40 mph	3,470	22	106	451	142	4,191	18	4,209	9.7
Non-trunk A roads - limit over 40 mph	5,495	55	93	841	381	6,865	17	6,882	15.9
All major roads	19,923	135	328	2,848	1,920	25,153	41	25,195	58.3
Minor roads	14,696	320	221	2,057	513	17,807	207	18,014	41.7
All roads	34,619	456	548	4,904	2,433	42,960	248	43,208	100.0
Percentage of all vehicles	80.1	1.1	1.3	11.3	5.6	99.4	0.6	100.0

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