Road Traffic

(asked on 1st September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the average number of vehicles on an average day on (a) the strategic road network and (b) local roads in the most recent year for which figures are available.


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Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 4th September 2014

Robert Goodwill

The table below includes the annual average daily flow for the strategic road network, local authority managed major roads and minor roads in England for 2013.

Department for Transport statistics

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport/series/road-traffic-statistics

Motor vehicle flow by road class and road management, England, 2013

Annual average daily flow 1

Vehicles a day

Highways Agency (HA) managed roads

Local authority (LA) managed roads

Motorways

'A' roads

All HA roads

Major roads

Minor roads

All LA roads

All Roads

82,500

31,200

52,800

13,300

1,500

2,600

3,800

1 The calculation for the annual average daily flow is estimated by dividing the annual traffic estimate by the road length

Source: DfT National Road Traffic Survey. Last updated: June 2014. The figures in this table are National Statistics.

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