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.
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.