Still More Freight Carried by Road
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I-100AD transport's share of freight traffic
measured in ton-miles rose to more than 70 per cent in 1964. This was revealed on Friday by the Minister of Transport in reply to a Parliamentary request that the road and rail freight statistics published in 1963 in the Hail Report, entitled "The Transport Needs of Great Britain in the Next 20 Years ", should be brought up to date.
This confirmation by the Minister of the continuing growth in the proportion of freight moved by road is all the more remarkable because it is barely 10 years ago since road nosed ahead of rail for the first time. The relevant figures of freight moved, measured in 1,000m. ton-miles, as given by Mr. Fraser are as follows:—
In 1955—road, 23'O; rail 21-4. 1960— road 30.1; rail, 18-7. 1964—road, 38-5; rail. 16.0.
During the five-year period 1960-64 there was an overall increase in total freight moved of 11.68 per cent. In the same period road freight increased by more than 27 per cent, rail decreased by over 15 per cent.
In round figures the road share of freight was around 50 per cent in 1954, 60 per cent in 1960 and more than 70 per cent in 1964.
Road's 88 per cent to Docks TN 1964 the total export traffic handled by -Ithe Port of London Authority over its quays was 2.58m. tons. Of this, 2-28m. tons (88 per cent) was roadborne and only 305,000 tons was railborne, even when including traffic carried on railway road vehicles.