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11. Spotlight: How has travel by Londoners changed – insights from 10 years of the London Travel
Demand Survey (LTDS)
Figure 11.19
Proportion of London residents in employment making no trips on
survey day, by working status. Employed residents only. Working
weekdays only.
Source: TfL Planning, Strategic Analysis.
Table 11.4 is based on data from LTDS that is only available for the most recent
three years of the survey, showing reasons for non-travel by those in employment,
directly complementing the data in figure 11.19. In interpreting these numbers, it is
necessary to bear in mind that full-time workers are not necessarily confined to
working just on weekdays, hence the relatively large proportion of people who ‘do
not work’ on the survey day compared to those who were taking leave. Looking
specifically at those working from home, some 20 per cent of full time workers who
did not make a work-related trip on a given day were working from home. The
values are closely comparable for those citing annual leave as a reason for not
making a work trip, suggesting that working from home is as significant a reason for
not making a work trip as annual leave – typically on average between 20 and 30
days per year for an average worker.
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