Annual report bringing together the full range of transport statistics and is the main general statistical reference source for transport in Great Britain.

Source agency: Transport

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Transport Statistics, Great Britain

Bulletin presenting latest annual data for road-based public transport in Great Britain. Contains information for local buses, non-local buses and coaches, light rail, trams and metro systems.

Source agency: Transport

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Public Transport Statistics Bulletin

In 2023 the most commonly used mode of transport in Great Britain was a road-based vehicle such as a car, van or taxi, comprising ** percent of all travel made that year. By comparison, trains were used for nearly **** percent of all trips.

Bulletin presenting statistics on the income/expenditure of local bus operators. Source agency: Transport Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Public Transport Statistics Bulletin Supplement

Daily domestic transport use by mode. Daily usage of selected domestic transport by mode for Great Britain.

As of the third quarter of 2025, there were approximately *****million men employed in the transport and storage sector in the UK, compared with ********women.

Regional Transport Statistics was discontinued as a single publication in 2009 and replaced by a series of Web Tables which are updated during the year as data becomes available. The first tranche for 2011, vehicles, will be published in April 2011. Source agency: Transport Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: RTS Web Tables

This statistic shows the results of a 2018 survey among motorists on reasons for not using public transport in the United Kingdom (UK). Of respondents, 44 percent reported that services were less reliable than they used to be.

Bulletin presenting the latest quarterly data on passenger satisfaction, bus reliability and bus and light rail patronage in Great Britain. Source agency: Transport Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Bus and Light Rail Statistics, Great Britain

Spending on public transport in the United Kingdom reached 4.7 billion British pounds in 2024/25. During the provided time period, spending on public transport was at its highest in 2020/21, when the government spent 7.2 billion pounds on local public transport.

Experimental public transit transport performance statistics by 200 metre grids for a subset of urban centres in Great Britain, with the following fields (Note: These data are experimental, please see the Methods and Known Limitations/Caveats Sections for more details).AttributeDescriptionidUnique IdentifierpopulationGlobal Human Settlement Layer population estimate downsampled to 200 metre (represents the total population across adjacent 100 metre cells)access_popThe total population that can reach the destination cell within 45 minutes using the public transit network (origins within 11.25 kilometres of the destination cell)proxim_popThe total population within an 11.25 kilometre radius of the destination celltrans_perfThe transport performance of the 200 metre cell. The percentage ratio of accessible to proximal populationcity_nmName of the urban centrecountry_nmName of the country that the urban centre belongs toMethods:

For more information please visit:

· Python Package: https://github.com/datasciencecampus/transport-network-performance

· Docker Image: https://github.com/datasciencecampus/transport-performance-docker

Known Limitations/Caveats:

These data are experimental – see the ONS guidance on experimental statistics for more details. They are being published at this early stage to involve potential users and stakeholders in assessing their quality and suitability. The known caveats and limitations of these experimental statistics are summarised below.

Urban Centre and Population Estimates:

· Population estimates are derived from data using a hybrid method of satellite imagery and national censuses. The alignment of national census boundaries to gridded estimates introduce measurement errors, particularly in newer housing and built-up developments. See section 2.5 of the GHSL technical report release 2023A for more details.

Public Transit Schedule Data (GTFS):

· Does not include effects due to delays (such as congestion and diversions).

· Common GTFS issues are resolved during preprocessing where possible, including removing trips with unrealistic fast travel between stops, cleaning IDs, cleaning arrival/departure times, route name deduplication, dropping stops with no stop times, removing undefined parent stations, and dropping trips, shapes, and routes with no stops. Certain GTFS cleaning steps were not possible in all instances, and in those cases the impacted steps were skipped. Additional work is required to further support GTFS validation and cleaning.

Transport Network Routing:

· “Trapped” centroids: the centroid of destination cells on very rare occasions falls on a private road/pathway. Routing to these cells cannot be performed. This greatly decreases the transport performance in comparison with the neighbouring cells. Potential solutions include interpolation based on neighbouring cells or snapping to the nearest public OSM node (and adjusting the travel time accordingly). Further development to adapt the method for this consideration is necessary.

Please also visit the Python package and Docker Image GitHub issues pages for more details.

How to Contribute:

We hope that the public, other public sector organisations, and National Statistics Institutions can collaborate and build on these data, to help improve the international comparability of statistics and enable higher frequency and more timely comparisons. We welcome feedback and contribution either through GitHub or by contacting datacampus@ons.gov.uk.

This report presents results of HFAS’s (Transport for Greater Manchester Highways Forecasting and Analytical Services formerly known as GMTU) public transport monitoring. It includes trends in countywide rail and Metrolink patronage.

In 2024, the gross value added (GVA) of the transportation and storage sector in the United Kingdom amounted to approximately **** billion British pounds, compared with **** billion pounds in 2023.