Notes:
Easter and Christmas Period - users should note that the percentages of normal use for road traffic, bus use outside London and cycling are comparing to baselines early in 2020 (as set out in footnotes below) - not to the equivalent Easter/Christmas period last year. Therefore rates, especially for the Easter Friday and Monday, and the 25th - 28th December period will look much lower than normal as they are not adjusted for the seasonal change. Whereas Rail/TFL is comparing to the equivalent rolling week/most equivalent day from 2019. For TFL therefore, this does not show the underlying significant reduction in trips made over the Easter/Christmas and bank holiday period as it is comparing to a similarly reduced figure for the equivalent day in 2019.
.. Not available (see relevant notes for reason)
r Revised from previous edition
p Provisional
a We have published information on the data sources and methodology used to generate each of these headline measures:
Daily usage of selected domestic transport by mode for Great Britain
www.gov.uk
Note 1 Although daily data is being reported, direct comparisons of change should not be made between weekdays and weekends/bank holidays. For public
transport, there are typically different levels of service/timetable in place on weekends and bank holidays than on weekdays; and for road traffic
, there is a different profile on weekend days compared to weekdays.
Note 2 Percentage of the equivalent day in the first week of February 2020.
Note 3 Percentage of the equivalent week in the previous year up to w/c 8 Feb 2021; from w/c 15 Feb 2021 this reverted to the percentage of the equivalent week in 2019.
Note 4 National Rail data is subject to revisions up to a week after initial publication. The latest days data would be an underestimate of the final result as the raw
ticket sales data matures. Since the publication on 16th September 2020, we have applied an adjustment to the latest weeks data to attempt to account for this
average upward revision which would occur as the data matures. The period should still be treated as provisional, but revisions should be smaller than they
have been to date. Contrary to this, the adjustment can occasionally be an overestimate. For example the value for Monday 11 January 2020 was originally
published as 17%, but the actual turnout seven days later was 13%. This revision therefore depicts the revision based on complete outturn journeys data,
rather than a downward trend in usage.
Note 5 Percentage of the equivalent day in the previous year (reverted to 2019 comparison on 1 March 2021)
Note 6 Percentage of the equivalent day of the third week of January 2020.
Note 7 Data on TfL Buses is not available from Sunday 19th April to 28th June due to the change in boarding policy:
TfL introduces middle-door only boarding across the London bus network
tfl.gov.uk
Fare collection was re-enabled for 406 routes by 9 June. By 4 July this had expanded to all but 18 routes. This data may be subject to under-reporting due
to non-compliance with fare collection.
Note 8 Data on Buses (excl. London) has been adjusted to compare against typical usage on bank holidays, whereas all other data sources have not.
Note 9 Data on Buses (excl. London) is not available on 8th May, 25th , 26th, 28th December 2020, 1st January 2021 and 23rd - 26th January 2022.
Note 10 Percentage of the equivalent day in the first week of March.
Note 11 Cycling data covers England only. The data source is now available at a lag of 3 days rather than 1 from 11/9/20 so the data will be 2 days behind the
other indicators going forward. Cycling levels have been historically lower in colder, wetter months, which may influence lower cycle usage over the winter
period compared to the March baseline.
Note 12 National Rail data for the period 31st August to 6th September 2020 is an underestimate of the real rate of rail usage in this period. This is due to the fact
that the rolling weekly average for the days in this period includes the Bank Holiday Monday on 31st August but the equivalent period from the previous
year which it is being compared to did not include a Bank Holiday.
Note 13 Revised and provisional rows are indicated using r (revised) and p (provisional) notation in this column. Individual values within each row which are revised or provisional are indicated with shading.