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Mr. Dudley Smith
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the passenger mileage carried in 1974 by private road transport, public road transport, rail and air, respectively.
Mr. Carmichael
Following are the estimated figures:
Passenger travel in Great Britain 1974 | |
Thousand million passenger miles | |
Private road transport | 217·5 |
Public road transport | 34·0* |
Rail | 22·5 |
Air | 1·5*† |
* Provisional estimates. | |
† Domestic scheduled services including Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. |