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transport roundup
A NEW ANNUAL publicatio from the DoE Transpo: Statistics: Great Britai 1964-1974 (HMSO £5.2f supplements the statistics an forecasts given in the Gree Paper on transport policy.
Besides 250 tables, chari illustrate key series coverin users' expenditure on inlan transport; public expenditui on roads; freight and pa; sengers carried; number vehicles licensed; traffic an casualty figures.
Traffic desks will find usefi the list of motorway junctior and the connecting A or class roads.
Over the ten years pa: senger and freight transpo increased substantially. Pa: senger traffic increased by 2. per cent to 440,000m passenge kilometres. Rail held its own 36,000m passenger kilometre but bus traffic declined by per cent to 54,000m.
Although goods transpo increased by some 20 per cei in terms of tonne kilometres just under 140,000m, tot: tonnage remained static ; about 1,900m tonnes showir that growth came from long hauls.
Road transport dominatE the goods transport field, tc kilometres going up by 37 pi cent to 90,000m.