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Title: Relative growth of tickets Post by: grahame on May 27, 2016, 11:51:00 From ORR data - http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/22056/passenger-rail-usage-2015-16-q4.pdf
Quote Total franchised passenger kilometres on Ordinary tickets recorded 11.0 billion kilometres in 2015-16 Q4, increasing by 4.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Passenger kilometres on Ordinary Anytime/Peak tickets recorded the highest growth this quarter (7.0%), totalling 2.8 billion kilometres. There were 3.0 billion passenger kilometres by franchised Regional operators (including Scotland) in 2015-16 Q4, an increase of 2.8% compared to Q4 last year. The main driver of passenger kilometres in this sector, Ordinary Off-Peak tickets increased by 5.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Just getting my head around a few figures such as those quoted ... it looks to me like the commuter and long distance growth in train travel (by ticket type) is predominantly at peaks, but regional growth is more concentrated off peak. Am I reading that right? Any other nuggets anyone notices in this report? Title: Re: Relative growth of tickets Post by: ChrisB on June 04, 2016, 12:06:17 Isn't the second a subset of the first statistic? What is long-distance if not regional
Title: Re: Relative growth of tickets Post by: grahame on June 04, 2016, 12:16:20 Isn't the second a subset of the first statistic? What is long-distance if not regional Yes, I'm sure it is. Thought that when I posted it - and tried to see what I could tell about the other journeys (commuter for sure, and perhaps interregional) by doing a bit of subtraction I suspect that there's a classification of local/commuter, regional and long distance TOCs and that's how it's broken down ... but the issue of artificial borders and "where does an area / catchment end" always seem to make the reading of statistics like this fraught with difficulty. They're probably going to build 100 house on the field opposite us. And that will increase the population of the Melksham urban catchment by around 3500. No - that's not an extra "0" added by mistake - it's because Bowerhill will be joined up to the main town and (for logical transport purposes) be considered part of the same urban blob. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |