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Government stats (here) (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-travel-survey-2021)

Summary pages:

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/nts_2021_a.jpg)

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/nts_2021_b.jpg)

People made 757 trips on average in 2021….

365 days in 2021….so more than 2 trips a day on average *every* day. I find that hard to believe.

Are they including car trips as well?

Yes, and walking and cycling trips too.  31% of trips were walking and their total distance was short - I wonder how short some were - walking the bin to the end of the road?

Here's some more stats from DfT - an update today to the passenger numbers and crowding datasets. (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/rai02-capacity-and-overcrowding#passenger-numbers-by-city-and-central-london-station) This is basically about commuting, and the latest data are for Autumn 2021, so it's still showing Covid effects rather than after-effects.

This little excerpt is the most striking, showing how the number seats provided into Paddington has risen with longer trains, but not matched passenger numbers. Then with Crossrail there was a huge boost in the number of standing places, while (to 2021) the number of passengers had halved!

             services   seats    capacity   max load      PiCX      
2011
1 hour peak   25    8,842     9,914      11,254       1,671   15%
3 hour peak   66   21,881   24,672      24,352      2,606   11%

2018
1 hour peak   24   11,320   14,268      14,748      2,002   14%      
3 hour peak   66   29,494   38,506      33,362      3,101   9%      
2021
1 hour peak   24   11,034   22,940       6,638       0          0%
3 hour peak   64   30,001   64,849      15,874      0          0%

I do hope they can produce this autumn's figures a big quicker than that, though in past years it was still not ready until July!