Travel in London Travel in London

Overview
shown a similar trend of improvement since the start of recording of this
measure.
• The available indicators relating to fear of crime while travelling have also shown
an improving trend over the review period. While not available on a consistent
basis from 2008, from 2009 to 2011 between 95 and 97 per cent of Londoners
felt safe while travelling during the day and between 76 and 78 per cent felt safe
while travelling at night. Later evidence shows a consistent reduction in the
proportion of Londoners for whom concerns over crime/anti-social behaviour
affect the frequency of their public transport use by ‘a lot’, from typically 26-28
per cent in 2013 to 22 per cent in spring 2015.
• Nevertheless, it is clear that some customers still have significant concerns, and
TfL is working to understand better the causes of these so that improvements
can be more effectively targeted.
Reducing transport’s contribution to climate change and improving
local air quality
New estimates of London’s key transport emissions show substantial reductions
since 2008, reflecting a large range of initiatives to improve London’s air quality.
• On a provisional basis between 2008 and 2013, and reflecting the current
update to the London inventories, CO 2 emissions from ground-based transport
reduced by an estimated 10 per cent, PM 10 emissions from ground-based
transport have reduced by 15 per cent, and NO x overall emissions from groundbased
transport reduced by 21 per cent.
Ten years of TfL’s London Travel Demand Survey: Some insights from
contemporary travel demand trends
TfL’s London Travel Demand Survey (LTDS) is a continuous household survey of the
Greater London area. LTDS has been running on a rolling basis since 2005/06,
making the latest full survey year, 2014/15, the 10th year of available data. This
report contains a special chapter looking at what this data can tell us about a variety
of ‘topical transport questions’ over the last decade.
Have there been any major changes in the overall amount of travel by Londoners
over the last 10 years?
• Overall travel patterns, in terms of number of trips per capita and average time
and distance travelled by Londoners over the decade have been broadly stable,
although the economic recession of the latter part of the last decade
temporarily dampened the amount of travel made per capita, and there are
some indications of a longer-term trend towards slightly less travel being made
per capita on average, albeit that overall population and travel demand
continues to increase.
• In looking for trends, there is some evidence of a small reduction in overall trip
rates over the 10 year period – indicative of an overall reduction in the ’need to
travel’, and consistent with increasing densification of parts of London.
• There has however been a steady rise in the proportion of Londoners who make
no travel on any given day – and this phenomenon accounts for the majority of
the change in overall trip rates. This is thought to reflect broad changes in
working patterns, although the impact of the recession in temporarily reducing
trip rates is also visible in the data.
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