This bulletin presents further analyses of transport-related information collected by the Scottish Household Survey. Headline results were published earlier in the year.
1 Main points
1.1 Sixty-six per cent of respondents used the car to travel to work, of which only six per cent travelled as a passenger. The percentage of those driving to work has been stable since 1999, but percentage of passengers has fallen from 12 per cent. [ Table 12].
1.2 Twenty-six per cent of households had access to two or more cars in 2008 (up from 18 per cent in 1999), whilst 30 per cent had no access to a car (down from 37% in 1999). Seventy-six per cent of males and 60 per cent of females possessed a full driving licence. Over three quarters of those living in rural areas drove at least once a week. [ Table 1, Table 3, Table 17].
1.3 A quarter of respondents had a regular bus service (at least 5 buses an hour) in 2008. Forty-six per cent had used their local bus service in the last month (up from 41% in 2002), with 24 per cent using their local train (up from 15% in 2002). Twenty-one per cent had made a part driving/parking journey in the last month, where they chose to drive only part of the journey. Fifty-six per cent of those aged 60 and over used a concessionary pass at least once a month (52% in previous years). [ Table 2, Table 6, Table 25].
1.4 Eighty-one per cent of respondents felt that public transport was very or fairly convenient to access in 2008. Nine per cent of the respondents with a limiting illness or disability had difficulty with at least one type of travel activity (walking/car/bus/train/taxi). [ Table 14, Table 32].
1.5 Half of all journeys to school were made by walking or cycling in 2008 (down from 55 per cent in 1999). Children in primary school were more likely to walk (55%) or be driven (30%) to school than children in secondary school (42 per cent and 16 per cent respectively). [ Table 13].
1.6 Thirty-seven per cent of households had access to at least one bicycle in 2008 (up from 32 per cent in 1999). Forty-five per cent of respondents had walked for pleasure in past seven days, and 5 per cent had cycled. [ Table 1, Table 26, Table 27].