As of October 2020, 92 percent of survey respondents in Great Britain supported the measure that anyone who tests positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) has to self-isolate for fourteen days. Furthermore, almost 90 percent of Brits support the compulsory wearing of masks on public transport and in shops. On the other hand, less than 40 percent of respondents would support the closing of schools and nurseries.

The latest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK can be found here.

Public transport in England experienced a substantial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic, however the number of trips per person per year began growing again in 2021. The average number of trips by buses outside London rose to 23 per person per. Buses outside London had already been declining before the COVID-19 pandemic.

As of October 2020, 87 percent of survey respondents in Great Britain believed that anyone who tests positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) self-isolating for fourteen days is effective in reducing the spread of the coronavirus. Furthermore, 82 percent of Brits believed the wearing of masks in shops and on public transport is effective in lowering the risk of coronavirus spreading. On the other hand, less than 30 percent of respondents thought that pubs and restaurants closing by 10 pm is an effective measure.

The latest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK can be found here.

Businesses in the global road transport industry are expecting to have revenue losses that amount to over 1.1 trillion euros in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2021, passenger road transport is projected to lose another 543 billion euros.

In a 2020 survey, over two thirds of the surveyed freight forwarders in the UK and Ireland reported that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic exerted a negative impact on their business operations.

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The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (formerly known as the ONS Opinions Survey or Omnibus) is an omnibus survey that began in 1990, collecting data on a range of subjects commissioned by both the ONS internally and external clients (limited to other government departments, charities, non-profit organisations and academia).

Data are collected from one individual aged 16 or over, selected from each sampled private household. Personal data include data on the individual, their family, address, household, income and education, plus responses and opinions on a variety of subjects within commissioned modules.

The questionnaire collects timely data for research and policy analysis evaluation on the social impacts of recent topics of national importance, such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the cost of living, on individuals and households in Great Britain.

From April 2018 to November 2019, the design of the OPN changed from face-to-face to a mixed-mode design (online first with telephone interviewing where necessary). Mixed-mode collection allows respondents to complete the survey more flexibly and provides a more cost-effective service for customers.

In March 2020, the OPN was adapted to become a weekly survey used to collect data on the social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the lives of people of Great Britain. These data are held in the Secure Access study, SN 8635, ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Covid-19 Module, 2020-2022: Secure Access.

From August 2021, as coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions were lifting across Great Britain, the OPN moved to fortnightly data collection, sampling around 5,000 households in each survey wave to ensure the survey remains sustainable.

The OPN has since expanded to include questions on other topics of national importance, such as health and the cost of living. For more information about the survey and its methodology, see the ONS OPN Quality and Methodology Information webpage.

Secure Access Opinions and Lifestyle Survey data

Other Secure Access OPN data cover modules run at various points from 1997-2019, on Census religion (SN 8078), cervical cancer screening (SN 8080), contact after separation (SN 8089), contraception (SN 8095), disability (SNs 8680 and 8096), general lifestyle (SN 8092), illness and activity (SN 8094), and non-resident parental contact (SN 8093). See Opinions and Lifestyle Survey: Secure Access for details.

Main Topics:
Each month's questionnaire consists of two elements: core questions, covering demographic information, are asked each month together with non-core questions that vary from month to month.
The non-core questions for this month were:

Buses (Module 317): This set of questions was asked on behalf of the Department of Transport and is about local bus services in the respondent's area.
Tobacco consumption (Module 210): This module was asked on behalf of Customs and Excise to help them estimate the amount of tobacco that is consumed as cigarettes.
Attitudes on developing countries (Module 236): This module was asked on behalf of the Department for International Development. The questions are about poverty in developing countries.
Reusable nappies (Module 316): This module was asked on behalf of the Environment Agency who were interested in people who currently use or have used reusable nappies in the past.

Dataset containing results of the Bus User Satisfaction Survey that is carried out annually. The data shows how Leicester compares with other authorities in the overall satisfaction of bus users.Please note due to coronavirus restrictions, the survey was not carried out in 2020 or 2021.This dataset is also part of a dashboard that has been created showing a range of transport related data. The dashboard can be viewed here.

The inequities of the COVID-19 pandemic were clear by April 2020 when data showed that despite being just 3.5% of the population in England, Black people comprised 5.8% of those who died from the virus; whereas White people, comprising 85.3% of the population, were 73.6% of those who died. The disproportionate impact continued with, for example, over-policing: 32% of stop and search in the year ending March 2021 were of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) males aged 15-34, despite them being just 2.6% of the population.

The emergency measures introduced to govern the pandemic worked together to create a damaging cycle affecting Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic families and communities of all ages. Key-workers – often stopped by police on their way to provide essential services – could not furlough or work from home to avoid infection, nor support their children in home-schooling. Children in high-occupancy homes lacked adequate space and/ or equipment to learn; such homes also lacked leisure space for key workers to restore themselves after extended hours at work. Over-policing instilled fear across the generations and deterred BAME people – including the mobile elderly - from leaving crowded homes for legitimate exercise, and those that did faced the risk of receiving a Fixed Penalty Notice and a criminal record.

These insights arose from research by Co-POWeR into the synergistic effects of emergency measures on policing, child welfare, caring, physical activity and nutrition. Using community engagement, a survey with 1000 participants and interviews, focus groups, participatory workshops and community testimony days with over 400 people in total, we explored the combined impact of COVID-19 and discrimination on wellbeing and resilience across BAME FC in the UK. This policy note crystallises our findings into a framework of recommendations relating to arts and media communications, systems and structures, community and individual well-being and resilience. We promote long term actions rather than short term reactions.

In brief, we conclude that ignoring race, gender and class when tackling a pandemic can undermine not only wellbeing across Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic families and communities (BAME FC) but also their levels of trust in government. A framework to protect wellbeing and resilience in BAME FC during public health emergencies was developed by Co-POWeR to ensure that laws and guidance adopted are culturally competent.

Two viruses - COVID-19 and discrimination - are currently killing in the UK (Solanke 2020), especially within BAMEFC who are hardest hit. Survivors face ongoing damage to wellbeing and resilience, in terms of physical and mental health as well as social, cultural and economic (non-medical) consequences. Psychosocial (ADCS 2020; The Children's Society 2020)/ physical trauma of those diseased and deceased, disproportionate job-loss (Hu 2020) multigenerational housing, disrupted care chains (Rai 2016) lack of access to culture, education and exercise, poor nutrition, 'over-policing' (BigBrotherWatch 2020) hit BAMEFC severely. Local 'lockdowns' illustrate how easily BAMEFC become subject to stigmatization and discrimination through 'mis-infodemics' (IOM 2020). The impact of these viruses cause long-term poor outcomes. While systemic deficiencies have stimulated BAMEFC agency, producing solidarity under emergency, BAMEFC vulnerability remains, requiring official support. The issues are complex thus we focus on the interlinked and 'intersectional nature of forms of exclusion and disadvantage', operationalised through the idea of a 'cycle of wellbeing and resilience' (CWAR) which recognises how COVID-19 places significant stress upon BAMEFC structures and the impact of COVID-19 and discrimination on different BAMEFC cohorts across the UK, in whose lives existing health inequalities are compounded by a myriad of structural inequalities. Given the prevalence of multi-generational households, BAMEFC are likely to experience these as a complex of jostling over-lapping stressors: over-policed unemployed young adults are more likely to live with keyworkers using public transport to attend jobs in the front line, serving elders as formal/informal carers, neglecting their health thus exacerbating co-morbidities and struggling to feed children who are unable to attend school, resulting in nutritional and digital deprivation. Historical research shows race/class dimensions to national emergencies (e.g. Hurricane Katrina) but most research focuses on the COVID-19 experience of white families/communities. Co-POWeR recommendations will emerge from culturally and racially sensitive social science research on wellbeing and resilience providing context as an essential strand for the success of biomedical and policy interventions (e.g. vaccines, mass testing). We will enhance official decision-making through strengthening cultural competence in ongoing responses to COVID-19 thereby...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (formerly known as the ONS Opinions Survey or Omnibus) is an omnibus survey that began in 1990, collecting data on a range of subjects commissioned by both the ONS internally and external clients (limited to other government departments, charities, non-profit organisations and academia).Data are collected from one individual aged 16 or over, selected from each sampled private household. Personal data include data on the individual, their family, address, household, income and education, plus responses and opinions on a variety of subjects within commissioned modules. The questionnaire collects timely data for research and policy analysis evaluation on the social impacts of recent topics of national importance, such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the cost of living, on individuals and households in Great Britain. From April 2018 to November 2019, the design of the OPN changed from face-to-face to a mixed-mode design (online first with telephone interviewing where necessary). Mixed-mode collection allows respondents to complete the survey more flexibly and provides a more cost-effective service for customers. In March 2020, the OPN was adapted to become a weekly survey used to collect data on the social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the lives of people of Great Britain. These data are held in the Secure Access study, SN 8635, ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Covid-19 Module, 2020-2022: Secure Access. From August 2021, as coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions were lifting across Great Britain, the OPN moved to fortnightly data collection, sampling around 5,000 households in each survey wave to ensure the survey remains sustainable. The OPN has since expanded to include questions on other topics of national importance, such as health and the cost of living. For more information about the survey and its methodology, see the ONS OPN Quality and Methodology Information webpage.Secure Access Opinions and Lifestyle Survey dataOther Secure Access OPN data cover modules run at various points from 1997-2019, on Census religion (SN 8078), cervical cancer screening (SN 8080), contact after separation (SN 8089), contraception (SN 8095), disability (SNs 8680 and 8096), general lifestyle (SN 8092), illness and activity (SN 8094), and non-resident parental contact (SN 8093). See Opinions and Lifestyle Survey: Secure Access for details. Main Topics:Each month's questionnaire consists of two elements: core questions, covering demographic information, are asked each month together with non-core questions that vary from month to month. The non-core questions for this month were: Tobacco consumption (Module 210): this module was asked on behalf of the Department of Customs and Excise to help them estimate the amount of tobacco consumed as cigarettes. Transport Direct (Module 351): this module was asked on behalf of the Department for Transport who are interested in finding out which travel information services respondents have used and what they think of them. Road and motorway congestion (Module 357): this module was asked on behalf of the Department for Transport. The module is in three sections and asks about the respondent's usual method of transport, attitudes to road congestion and motorway journeys. Disability monitoring (Module 363): the Special Licence version of this module is held under SN 6468. Mobile phone health risks (Module 365): this module was asked on behalf of the University of Surrey who are interested in the sources of information from the Government that people may have heard about concerning health risks associated with mobile phones. They are also interested in people's behaviour as a result of this information. Concern about crime on public transport (Module 366): this module was asked on behalf of the Department for Transport who are interested in perceptions of fear when using public transport. Multi-stage stratified random sample Face-to-face interview

Particulate matter pollution from road transportation in the United Kingdom has fallen considerably in recent decades. PM2.5 emissions totaled 11,500 metric tons in 2023 compared to 29,400 in 2000. Emissions of both PM2.5 and PM10 experienced a notable decrease in 2020 due to travel restrictions brought on by the outbreak of COVID-19. Road transportation is a major source of UK PM2.5 emissions.

Domestic transportation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United Kingdom declined 1.4 percent in 2023 to an estimated 112 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e). This represents an overall reduction of 27 percent when compared to 2005 levels.UK transportation sector emissions plummeted 19 percent in 2020 due to COVID-19-related travel restrictions. Although emissions from this sector have rebounded since then, they have remained below pre-pandemic levels.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) is an omnibus survey that collects data from respondents in Great Britain. Information is gathered on a range of subjects, commissioned both internally by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and by external clients (other government departments, charities, non-profit organisations and academia).One individual respondent, aged 16 or over, is selected from each sampled private household to answer questions. Data are gathered on the respondent, their family, address, household, income and education, plus responses and opinions on a variety of subjects within commissioned modules. Each regular OPN survey consists of two elements. Core questions, covering demographic information, are asked together with non-core questions that vary depending on the module(s) fielded.The OPN collects timely data for research and policy analysis evaluation on the social impacts of recent topics of national importance, such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the cost of living. The OPN has expanded to include questions on other topics of national importance, such as health and the cost of living.For more information about the survey and its methodology, see the gov.uk OPN Quality and Methodology Information (QMI) webpage.Changes over timeUp to March 2018, the OPN was conducted as a face-to-face survey. From April 2018 to November 2019, the OPN changed to a mixed-mode design (online first with telephone interviewing where necessary). Mixed-mode collection allows respondents to complete the survey more flexibly and provides a more cost-effective service for module customers.In March 2020, the OPN was adapted to become a weekly survey used to collect data on the social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the lives of people of Great Britain. These data are held under Secure Access conditions in SN 8635, ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Covid-19 Module, 2020-2022: Secure Access. (See below for information on other Secure Access OPN modules.)From August 2021, as coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions were lifted across Great Britain, the OPN moved to fortnightly data collection, sampling around 5,000 households in each survey wave to ensure the survey remained sustainable. Secure Access OPN modulesBesides SN 8635 (the COVID-19 Module), other Secure Access OPN data includes sensitive modules run at various points from 1997-2019, including Census religion (SN 8078), cervical cancer screening (SN 8080), contact after separation (SN 8089), contraception (SN 8095), disability (SNs 8680 and 8096), general lifestyle (SN 8092), illness and activity (SN 8094), and non-resident parental contact (SN 8093). See the individual studies for further details and information on how to apply to use them. Main Topics: The non-core questions for this month were: Bus satisfaction (Module MBA): this module was asked on behalf of the Department for Transport and questions explore respondents’ personal use and thoughts on bus services, based on individual experience. Publications for the Bus satisfaction data are available from the ONS Public attitudes towards buses: March 2013 webpage. Multi-stage stratified random sample Face-to-face interview

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) is an omnibus survey that collects data from respondents in Great Britain. Information is gathered on a range of subjects, commissioned both internally by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and by external clients (other government departments, charities, non-profit organisations and academia).

One individual respondent, aged 16 or over, is selected from each sampled private household to answer questions. Data are gathered on the respondent, their family, address, household, income and education, plus responses and opinions on a variety of subjects within commissioned modules. Each regular OPN survey consists of two elements. Core questions, covering demographic information, are asked together with non-core questions that vary depending on the module(s) fielded.

The OPN collects timely data for research and policy analysis evaluation on the social impacts of recent topics of national importance, such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the cost of living. The OPN has expanded to include questions on other topics of national importance, such as health and the cost of living.

For more information about the survey and its methodology, see the gov.uk OPN Quality and Methodology Information (QMI) webpage.

Changes over time

Up to March 2018, the OPN was conducted as a face-to-face survey. From April 2018 to November 2019, the OPN changed to a mixed-mode design (online first with telephone interviewing where necessary). Mixed-mode collection allows respondents to complete the survey more flexibly and provides a more cost-effective service for module customers.

In March 2020, the OPN was adapted to become a weekly survey used to collect data on the social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the lives of people of Great Britain. These data are held under Secure Access conditions in SN 8635, ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, 2019-2023: Secure Access. (See below for information on other Secure Access OPN modules.)

From August 2021, as coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions were lifted across Great Britain, the OPN moved to fortnightly data collection, sampling around 5,000 households in each survey wave to ensure the survey remained sustainable.

Secure Access OPN modules

Besides SN 8635 (which includes the COVID-19 Module), other Secure Access OPN data includes sensitive modules run at various points from 1997-2019, including Census religion (SN 8078), cervical cancer screening (SN 8080), contact after separation (SN 8089), contraception (SN 8095), disability (SNs 8680 and 8096), general lifestyle (SN 8092), illness and activity (SN 8094), and non-resident parental contact (SN 8093). See the individual studies for further details and information on how to apply to use them.

Main Topics:

The non-core questions for this month were:

Bus satisfaction (Module MBA): this module was asked on behalf of the Department for Transport and questions explore respondents’ personal use and thoughts on bus services, based on individual experience.

Publications for the Bus satisfaction data are available from the ONS Public attitudes towards buses: March 2013 webpage.

Transportation carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in the United Kingdom decreased by 1.3 percent in 2023 to 109 million metric tons (MtCO₂). The outbreak of COVID-19 caused UK transportation emissions to plummet almost 20 percent in 2020, which greatly contributed to overall UK CO₂ emissions reductions that year. Although emissions from this sector have rebounded since then, they remained below pre-pandemic levels. Transportation is the largest source of UK emissions The energy supply sector was once the largest source of emissions in the UK, but a shift away from coal use and a transition to cleaner energy sources has significantly cut emissions from this sector. As a result, energy supply emissions have fallen below those emitted by transportation, which is now the largest source of UK emissions. UK road transportation emissions Road vehicles are a major source of carbon pollution in the UK, with passenger cars the largest source of transportation emissions. Passenger cars are followed by heavy goods vehicles and light duty vehicles.

In the fiscal year 2023/24, the number of passenger journeys on public transport operated by Transport for London (TfL) amounted to almost 3.6 billion, an increase of around nine percent compared to the previous year. Passenger numbers had dropped by two-thirds in the first year of COVID-19 pandemic, from 3.8 billion in 19/20 to 1.3 billion in 20/21. The more recent trend has been towards recovery, but as of 23/24 passenger numbers remained around seven percent below pre-pandemic figures. Revenue not yet back on track As passenger numbers fell during the COVID-19 pandemic, so did revenue from passenger fares. Revenue from ticket sales on the London Underground fell by three-quarters at the beginning of the pandemic. Similarly to passenger numbers, fare revenue has remained below pre-pandemic levels, despite rising again. As of 2023,/24 the London Underground reported selling tickets worth 2.5 billion British pounds. Elizabeth Line - a passenger favorite The full length of the new Elizabeth Line, originally named Crossrail, was completed in 2022 and has been successful in attracting passengers since. The suburban route, running between Reading and Heathrow Airport in the west of London to Abbey Wood and Shenfield in the East, recorded 210 million passengers in 2023/24. The Elizabeth Line has not only been successful at increasing passenger numbers, it is also the Transport for London service with the highest passenger satisfaction, scoring an evaluation score of 81 percent in Q4 of 2023/24.