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2. Overall travel trends in London
Figure 2.6
Trends by mode of transport for people entering central London
during the weekday morning peak. Index year 2000=100.
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Source: TfL Planning, Strategic Analysis.
Key developments over this 14-year period have been:
• A gradual decrease in total morning peak travel to central London until
2003, followed by a generally rising trend for the rest of the decade, with
the level in 2014 being 15.3 per cent above that of 2000. The increase
between 2013 and 2014 was 5.1 per cent, and that from 2008 was 11.3 per
cent.
• A reduction of more than half – 53 per cent – in the number of people using
the car. The impact of the introduction of Congestion Charging in 2003 is
visible in the figure, but is not the only factor involved in this dramatic shift
away from private transport for these journeys.
• An increase of 60 per cent in the use of the bus – broadly mirroring the
pattern of large-scale increases in bus use seen more widely in London over
the same period, with the bulk of this occurring in the early half of the last
decade.
• A 203 per cent increase in cycling to central London, during the weekday
morning peak period, again mirroring wider trends for this mode.
There has been growth on all rail modes since 2000; however interpretation of
the use of rail services is not straightforward. This is because CAPC counting
cordon coincides with the main central London rail termini, where interchange
between National Rail and Underground services takes place. Looking at the
numbers in table 2.5:
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