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2. Overall travel trends in London
Figure 2.10
Hourly distribution of travel to and from the Isle of Dogs.
60
50
2014
2013
2012
2011
2001
Thousand people
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30
20
10
0
Source: TfL Planning, Strategic Analysis.
Travel trends by transport corridor
Table 2.7 shows a comparison of corridor shares between 2008 and 2014. Corridor
shares have not changed substantially in recent years – the western corridor remains
accountable for the majority of trips (61 per cent) to and from the Isle of Dogs and the
eastern corridor accounted for approximately a third of trips in 2014. The difference
between trips on the western and eastern corridors are most marked during the morning
and evening peaks; at some points there are more than twice the number of trips to and
from the west than to or from the east. During off-peak hours the split between the east
and west corridor is much more even. This suggests that it is journey to work trips
(predominantly made in the peaks) that are biased to the west, while other trips, for
example shopping trips, are more evenly distributed between the two corridors.
Although the southern corridor accounts for the smallest proportion of trips to and from
the Isle of Dogs (7 per cent), it has seen the largest increase (12.3 per cent) in trips since
2008. Some 88 per cent of the trips in the southern corridor are made by DLR and the
remainder of the trips are walk or cycle trips through the Greenwich foot tunnel.
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