Accredited official statistics
Road traffic estimates for Great Britain: quarter 1 2013
This release presents provisional estimates for road traffic in Great Britain for the first quarter (January to March) of 2013.
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Key points
Comparing Q1 (January to March) 2013 with the same quarter the previous year:
- all motor vehicle traffic decreased, by 2.3%, to 74.7 billion vehicle miles
- all vehicle types have shown a decrease, including:
- car traffic decreased by 1.9% to 59.6 billion vehicle miles
- light goods vehicle traffic decreased by 1.9% to 10.4 billion vehicle miles
- heavy goods vehicle traffic decreased by 3.8%, to 3.7 billion vehicle miles
- traffic volumes decreased on all road types, with larger decreases on rural and urban roads (2.5 and 2.9% respectively) than on motorways (0.7%)
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