Some results of new SHS Transport questions (2005 Q1-3)

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• Some results of new SHS Transport questions
  (2005 Q1-3)
• Frank Dixon and Mairi MacAskill,
• Transport Statistics branch, Scottish Executive

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New (or reinstated) questions in 2005 covered in
this talk

• Views on increase in traffic on Scotlands roads,
  motoring taxes and charges, and congestion
• Traveline Scotland
• Use of concessionary fare pass
• Other purposes of car/van driver journey to work
• Motorcycling
• Injury road accidents
• Non-users views of rail services

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Concerned by increase in traffic? of adults in
each age-group (very or quite)
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Concerns about increase in traffic100 all
adults who were quite or very concerned

• 45 - busier roads / streets
• 38 - congestion / increased travel times
• 33 - air pollution
• 19 - more accidents
• 17 - carbon emissions / global warming /
  environment
• 16 - more dangerous for pedestrians / cyclists /
  children
• 10 - parking problems
• 9 - health problems (e.g. respiratory illness)
• other reasons included effect on countryside /
  landscape, more/bigger lorries, noise, and
  makes me/others angry/irritable. However
  (apart from an other category) each was given
  by at most 7 of the concerned people.

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How concerns vary between sub-groups

• In the slides which follow
• 100 everyone in the specified sub-group who
  said that they were either very concerned or
  quite concerned about the increase in traffic
  on Scotlands roads
• e.g. the left-hand side of the next slide shows
  that, of the 16-19 year olds who expressed
  concern about the increase in traffic on the
  roads, when asked what concerned them about
  traffic growth in Scotland
• 47 said air pollution
• 33 said busier roads / streets
• 26 said congestion / increased travel times
• 25 said more accidents

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Main concerns s of concerned, by age-group
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Main concerns s of concerned, by ann. net
hhold inc.
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Main concerns s of concerned, by freq. of
driving
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Main concerns s of concerned, by urban / rural
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Main concerns s of concerned, by Depriv. Ind.
Quint.
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Some other findings among those concerned by the
increase in traffic on Scotlands road, concern

• about carbon emissions / global warming /
  environment falls from 23-25 of 16-29 y.o. to
  5-8 of 70 y.o.
• about effect on countryside / landscape rises
  from 6 in urban areas to 10-14 in rural areas
• about congestion higher among men (44) than
  women (33)
• higher among women than men for air pollution
  (35 vs. 30), more dangerous for pedestrians/
  (19 vs. 13) and more accidents (22 vs. 16)
• about more/bigger lorries up from 1-2 of 16-29
  y.o. to 7-11 of 70 y.o.
• about congestion higher among self-employed or
  employed full-time or self-employed (47-50) than
  among those permanently retired (30) or looking
  after home or family (25)
• about carbon emissions / global warming /
  environment rises from 13 in most deprived
  20 areas to 21 in least deprived 20 areas.

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Other reasons

• 20 of those who expressed concern gave a reason
  which wasnt covered by the interviewers lists
• Interviewers typed in brief descriptions of such
  reasons
• SHS contractors looked at these, and identified
  the most-often quoted ones
• New codes added with effect from January 2006
• Road condition deterioration
• Effects on business costs
• Deters tourists

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Views on motoring taxes and charges of adults
in each age group
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Views on motoring taxes and charges of adults
who gave each reason by sex
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Views on motoring taxes and charges of adults
who gave each reason by car availability
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Traffic congestion

• Asked of those who drive a car/van at least once
  a week
• How often one drives in congested traffic
• If ever drives in congested traffic impact of
  this and views on what should be done about
  congestion

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Frequency of driving in congested traffic of
adults, including non-drivers
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What impacts does congestion have? - of
adults who ever drove in congested traffic

• 38 - Longer journey times
• 23 - Stress
• 18 - Makes me angry/irritable
• 10 - Uncertainty/unreliable journey times
• 8 - Get home later than would like to
• 31 said that congestion has no impact on them

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Impacts of congestion of drivers in congested
traffic in each age group
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What should be done about congestion? - of
adults who ever drove in congested traffic

• 33 - Improve public transport services
• 16 - Public transport should be cheaper
• 13 - Build more roads
• 11 - Add lanes to existing roads
• 9 - Move goods by rail/fewer lorries on road
• 25 said that they dont know what should be done
  about congestion
• 27 gave other suggestions

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What should be done about congestion? of adults
who ever drove in congested traffic
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New options added in January 2006

• Encourage car sharing
• Provide more park ride facilities
• Ban cars from town centres
• Introduce bypass

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Traveline use and awareness of adults in
each age group
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Traveline

• 16.3 had heard of Traveline
• 4.5 had ever used it
• Of those that had used it, 18 had used it in the
  past two weeks

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Traveline SHS also asks

• If person has heard of it, how they heard of it
• If person has used it, how they prefer to use it
• If person has heard of it, whether would use
  certain new means of access
• If person has used it has it led to a change
  from car to public transport?
• If so, how many times in the past two weeks

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Concessionary travel pass frequency of use -
of pass holders
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Use of concessionary fare passcumulative of
all adults by sex
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Use of concessionary fare pass cumulative of
all adults driving licence possession
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Use of concessionary fare pass cumulative of
all adults aged 60 - by income
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Car/van drivers to work/education what else
they usually do in the course of their
journeys(100 all who drive car/van to
work/education)

• 74 said nothing done as part of journey to
  work / education
• 11 take children to school
• 3 take spouse/partner to work / education
• 4 take friends / family to work / education
• 4 buy newspaper / milk etc for work
• 4 go shopping / other errands
• 3 do other things

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Car/van drivers to work s who usually take
children to school en route(100 all in
sub-group who drive car/van to work/ed.)

• 11 overall
• 6 of men 17 of women
• 18 of 30-39 year olds 15 of 40-49 year olds
• 13 of those from 30-40,000 p.a. households
  16 of those from over 40,000 households
• 15 for large urban areas 21 for small
  remote towns (NB for the latter, underlying
  n 87 )

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Ridden motorcycle in past 12 months? s by
age-group
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Main purposes for which ridden motorcycle100
all motorcyclists

• 55 - day trip / recreational journey
• 29 - travel to/from work
• 26 - visiting friends and relatives
• 14 - other personal business
• 10 - shopping
• 8 - entertainment / other public activities
• 7 - coming/going on holiday
• 7 - participating in sport
• etc
• 14 - other unspecified type of journey

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Single main purpose for which ridden
motorcycle100 all motorcyclists

• 44 - day trip / recreational journey
• 20 - travel to/from work
• 6 - visiting friends and relatives
• 5 - other personal business
• 4 - participating in sport
• 3 - entertainment / other public activities
• 2 - coming/going on holiday
• 2 - shopping
• etc
• 11 - other unspecified type of journey

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SHS also asks

• Engine size
• Estimated mileage in past 12 months
• How long (in total) person has ridden motorcycles
• Since started m/cycling, any periods of gt1 year
  in which not motorcycled?
• If so, how long since most recent one?

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Injury road accidents

• 1.3 of adults had been injured in a road
  accident in the past year
• if so, SHS also asks
• when accident happened (month and year)
• what type of road user
• 63 driver
• 22 passenger
• 9 pedestrian
• 5 cyclist
• 2 other)
• were the Police informed (65 said yes)

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Views on rail services of each sub-group
who agree (strongly or tend to)
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SHS also asks (not new in 2005)

• Frequency of use of train services
• Users views of several other aspects of train
  services
• Frequency of use of bus services
• Users views of aspects of bus services
• Infrequent / non-users reasons for not using
  buses more often
• Frequency of use of evening bus and train
  services perception of safety from crime

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Other new / reinstated / amended questions in
2005 and 2006

• Community transport (asked Q1-Q2 05)
• whether used
• if so, for what purpose and what was the main
  purpose
• Expenditure on public transport fares in past
  seven days
• Additional pre-coded answers
• reasons for change of mode of travel to work
• means of planning car/van and public transport
  journeys
• reasons why public transport journeys were
  delayed
• Minor changes with effect from 2006
• additional pre-coded answers for concern about
  traffic growth and what should be done about
  congestion
• Concessionary fare pass questions reword for
  new arrangements from 1 April 06

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• Any questions ?

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Annex

• Where to find
• SHS Transport results

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Publication of SHS Transport results

• Transport Statistics bulletins
• Other Transport Statistics publications
• Available from
• Blackwells Bookshop
• www.scotland.gov.uk/transtat/latest
• Also included in SHS publications

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Household Transport

• Main results for Scotland (apart from Travel
  Diary)
• Car availability, possession of driving licences
  and frequency of driving
• Frequency of use of local bus and train services
• Frequency of walking and cycling, as means of
  transport and for pleasure or to keep fit
• Usual means of travel to work and travel to
  school
• Other topics, some of which may vary from edition
  to edition e.g. in 2004 edition
• How drivers make particular journeys, and could
  they use other means of transport
• Methods of obtaining journey planning information
• Frequency of evening travel by bus and by train,
  and perceptions of safety then
• Place of work and working pattern
• Means of travel to work a year ago, and reasons
  for changes
• Reasons for use of means of travel to school,
  whether those who go by car could use public
  transport, and reasons why they dont/cant
• Adults with limited mobility, and with Blue
  Badges transport-related activities which they
  would find difficult to manage on their own

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Transport across Scotland

• main results for Council areas (apart from
  Travel Diary)
• biennial
• Car availability, driving licences and frequency
  of driving
• Frequency of walking and cycling
• Availability and frequency of bus services
• Views on the convenience of public transport
• Travel to work
• Travel to school
• Other topics, may vary from edition to edition
  e.g. in 2003/2004
• Perception of safety from crime when travelling
  in the evening
• Could car/van commuters use public transport
• Where commuters usually park

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SHS Travel Diary results

• journeys (over ¼ mile / 5 mins walk) reported by
  adults
• Some results for individual Council areas and/or
  Council groups
• Purpose of journey
• Main mode of transport
• Distance travelled, and duration of journey
• Time of day, and day of the week, of travel
• Car occupancy
• Other topics, may vary from edition to edition
  e.g. in 2003 one
• Journey origins and destinations
• Journeys into and within Edinburgh and Glasgow
• Estimated trip rates

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Other Transport Statistics publications

• Bus and Coach Statistics
• more detailed analysis of bus-related questions
  including
• Availability and frequency of bus services
• Views on the quality of public transport
• Frequency of use of bus services
• Reasons for not using bus services more often
• Travel to work
• Frequency of evening travel by bus, and
  perception of safety from crime
• Other topics, some of which vary from edition to
  edition
• Scottish Transport Statistics contains some
  key results
• Car availability and driving licences (chapter 1)
• Bus passengers views (chapter 2)
• Drivers experience of congestion (chapter 6)
• Freq. of driving, walking and cycling travel to
  work and school (chapter 12)

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Which publication?Which edition?

• An Annex in Household Transport
• lists all (non-Travel Diary) Transport topics
• shows in which years they were included in the
  SHS questionnaire
• identifies which editions of Household Transport,
  Transport across Scotland and Bus and Coach
  Statistics analyse them
• Next edition of SHS Travel Diary results (due
  20th March) will list topics covered in previous
  editions

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SHS publications which include Transport results

• SHS Annual Report
• Frequency of travelling by bus and train in the
  evening, and perceptions of safety from crime
  (chapter 4)
• Travel to work or adults education (chapter 5)
• Travel to school (chapter 5)
• Cars available to the household (chapter 6)
• Convenience of public transport, and other
  services (chapter 7)
• Topic Reports
• Accessibility and Transport
• Mode Choice
• Long-distance Commuting (forthcoming)