Using data from the International Passenger Survey & National Travel Survey to look at the split of long and short distance journeys and use this to calculate total carbon emissions from both. This will show that the bulk of carbon emissions come from long distance journeys (3% of trips, 60% of miles, 70% of emissions from passenger travel), and highlight the importance of the long-distance trips for decarbonisation, since these trips and miles have been increasing over time

The seminar focused on road casualty statistics, covering the latest figures and an update on forthcoming changes to the STATS19 data system which forms the basis of police reported road collision and casualty data for Great Britain.

An overview of the provisional casualty figures for Great Britain in 2023 and look ahead to some forthcoming changes to the statistics.

An overview of progress in implementation of the latest updates to the collection following the most recent review of the system, and how this will lead to future improvements in the data and statistics.

Transport for London is introducing a new network of Superloop bus services to capture journeys that do not go into the centre of London.

Transport for London, discussed the reasoning behind the introduction of the Superloop network, the methodology in developing and delivering the new network, and how many are using it.

Traffic crashes are among the major public health concerns in the United States and globally. Traffic fatalities have been increasing in the past decade; however, cyclist and pedestrian fatalities have been increasing at an even higher rate. Since 2009, there has been an 80% increase in pedestrian fatalities and 54% increase in cyclist fatalities in the US, compared to 27% in total fatalities (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2023). Active transport-friendly infrastructure has been shown to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries involving AT users. However, one of the challenges of effectively designing and implementing these countermeasures is the lack of data. Basic data about parts of the transportation network like roadway assets (such as bike lanes and sidewalks) and traveller information (cyclist and pedestrian counts) are often incomplete, inconsistent, or unavailable, while the crash data is often underreported.

This seminar discussed a trial of e-scooters undertaken in Bristol and Bath

The speaker was Kiron Chatterjee, Professor of Travel Behaviour and a member of the Centre for Transport & Society at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Our next seminar will look the latest issue of the National Travel Survey which was published last September and will discuss recent developments.

Amardeep Dhani, Senior Statistical Officer, National Travel Survey at the Department for Transport will discuss the latest trends from the National Travel Survey 2022. 

Lisa Eyers, Head of the National Travel Survey at the Department for Transport will give an overview of the future developments to the National Travel Survey.

Covid has made the analysis and reporting of timeseries very difficult. Was Covid just a blip or have underlying trends changed? There may be entirely new patterns of demand developing.

Our next seminar will therefore look at the issues around this.  Our main speaker will be John Wilkins, Deputy Director, Travel and Environment Data and Statistics (TRENDS) Division, and Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics of the Department for Transport. He will outline some of the challenges the Department has had to overcome in reporting the statistical narrative during recent times and consider where we stand as we enter 2024.  He will be joined by colleagues and Alex Chappell from AECOM who will discuss some examples.

Adrian Palmer, Professor of Marketing, Henley Business School, University of Reading will initially take a consumer perspective and look at the broader drivers of (and increasingly inhibitors to) online sales growth. 

Christopher Sturman, Joint Chair of the CILT Retail Forum with over 45 years in multi modal logistics and supply chain management in automotive, and then in food and drink in all three temperature environments, will discuss current themes being developed in the downstream logistics and services supply area, particularly for food and drink.

Some perspectives from Ann Frye, an international specialist in the area of mobility of disabled and older people, who will discuss transport accessibility issues for disabled and older people.

Chris McKee, Statistician, Bus and Local Transport Statistics, Department for Transport will talk on transport related disability statistics.

Neil Bendel, Manchester City Council, and Andy Walker MBE, Engagement Coordinator at Breakthrough UK. Co-production of insights into Census 2021 data on health and disability with communities, including work in Manchester with the Disabled People’s Engagement Sounding Board.

Gail Rankin & Gemma Keane from OSR (Office for Statistics Regulation) will talk on the OSR Review of Transport Accessibility Statistics.  Also, looking forward, they welcome input and feedback from users and stakeholders on changes in the data landscape

Way forward for the Health and Social Care Disability Group and liaison with the DfT disability group.

A way of switching from polluting, rubber-tyred cars, buses and freight vehicles to energy-efficient, steel-wheeled, ultra-lightweight trams in town centres.

Advantages such as freeing up parking areas and permitting low-cost passenger journeys and goods distribution.

An overview of the economic and environmental case for ULR based on studies for specific towns.  

An overview of the information collected and its importance  

A discussion of its challenges including COVID and a societal decrease in government trust 

An overview of the latest findings.  

Information on access for non New Zealand researchers. 

An overview of rail statistics published by ORR. 

ORR’s data portal and recent improvements. 

An overview of the latest trends in both passenger usage and freight usage of statistics to end March 2023 which will be published in early June. 

Future developments in rail statistics, including new environmental data.

Tying together all the various workstreams and initiatives to make best use of limited resources and ensure consistent approach.

Helping to address the underlying barriers to data access / sharing and use.

Facilitating the growth of the right infrastructure and creating a heathy data ecosystem that fosters innovation.

Supporting data interoperability between modes and geographical areas and systems (e.g. transport with energy and smart infrastructure).

A review on how COVID has affected bus demand, the extent to which it has recovered, and what the future holds.

A comparison of the effects of the pandemic on bus trends, against that from rail and car.

A summary of the implications for the future of local bus industuries and research issues.

A summary of the aviation statistics currently published by the DfT.

An overview of recent trends in the sector (passenger and freight), in particular the impact of the pandemic and the extent of recovery.

Future developments in aviation statistics, with a brief look at areas of current interest, such as decarbonisation and aviation noise.

A discussion of the use of current statistics by TSUG members, current data gaps, and whether there are other statistics which would be beneficial for users.

An overview of work undertaken using the DfT's Propensity to Cycle Toll (PCT) to explore the e-bike boost that could be provided by the mass take-up of e-bikes, above and beyond achieving a Dutch-style cycline culture and infrastructure.

An overview of the Promise of Low Cargo Freight project which analysed the logistics potential of cargo bikes for urban deliveries using GPS data.

An overview of long term trends in road safety statistics, back to 1901, and more recent comparisons with some European and non-European countries.

A particular focus on trends in British road casualties, types of road users involved, and the factors contributing to casualties.

An overview of the latest NTS results, and what insights they provide into trends in travel patterns during the COVID-19 and post-pandemic periods, including who is travelling and why.

Challenges of running the survey during the lockdown, how the survey methodology was adapted to over come these challenges, and impacts on how the resulting data should be analysed.

Future developments in the NTS, in particular, progress of the work to move towards digital travel diaries.