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11. Spotlight: How has travel by Londoners changed – insights from 10 years of the London Travel
Demand Survey (LTDS)
Figure 11.42 compares the trip profiles of weekdays and weekend days. Notable
from the graph is the fact that there are more trips in the inter peak period at the
weekend than in the week. Between the hours of 10:00 and 15:00, there are 48 per
cent more trips on Saturdays than an average weekday, and 28 per cent more trips
on Sundays (London residents only). On Saturdays, there are also more trips than
weekdays from 20:00 onwards. In fact, for 15 hours of the day, there are more trips
on Saturdays by London residents than on an average weekday.
Figure 11.42
Trips by day of week and trip start time.
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2.5
Trips by start time
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 0 1 2 3
Weekdays Saturdays Sundays
Source: TfL Planning, Strategic Analysis.
Average trip lengths are remarkably similar on weekdays and weekends (figure
11.43). The main difference occurs when trips that go beyond the Greater London
boundary are included. This shows that at weekends, residents tend to make longer
trips outside Greater London, particularly by rail or car. When excluding these types
of trips, the average trip lengths are very similar, at 3.7 kilometres per trip on
weekdays and 3.5 kilometres per trip at weekends.
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