telstarbox
Established Member
Rail passenger traffic is at record levels - in 2011/12 rail passengers made 1.5 billion journeys [1].
Doing some very crude calculations, this means each man, woman and child made 24 journeys in that year. 1.4 million people use heavy rail to travel to work [2] and there are roughly 40 million people of working age in the UK [3].
If commuter journeys are stripped out (based on a daily return every 250 working days), this means that each non-commuter makes 21 journeys per year.
My question is... what can be done to encourage these non-regular passengers to use rail, other than building new lines or new stock - in other words, what would be effective measures which don't require large capital investment?
[1] http://www.gov.uk/government/upload...file/142668/rail-trends-factsheet-2011-12.pdf
[2] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...w-we-travel-to-work-in-england-and-wales.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom#Age_structure
Doing some very crude calculations, this means each man, woman and child made 24 journeys in that year. 1.4 million people use heavy rail to travel to work [2] and there are roughly 40 million people of working age in the UK [3].
If commuter journeys are stripped out (based on a daily return every 250 working days), this means that each non-commuter makes 21 journeys per year.
My question is... what can be done to encourage these non-regular passengers to use rail, other than building new lines or new stock - in other words, what would be effective measures which don't require large capital investment?
[1] http://www.gov.uk/government/upload...file/142668/rail-trends-factsheet-2011-12.pdf
[2] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...w-we-travel-to-work-in-england-and-wales.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom#Age_structure