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7th May 2009, Page 9
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By David Harris THE. AMOUNT OF road freight carried on London's roads fell by 11% in 2007 following a peak in 2006, according to the latest report issued by Transport for London (TfL).

The report, which was formerly called the London Travel Report, but has been renamed the Travel in London Report, says 139 million tonnes were lifted in 2007 Of this total, 56 million tonnes moved wholly within London, 47 million tonnes entered London from the outside, and 36 minion tonnes originated in London, but were headed for other places.

While tonnage fell, average annual vehicle kilometres carried on rising to 127,000km per year, mainly because of an increase in the use of vans TfL notes this change, but adds: "The trend for road freight vehicle kilometres operated in London has broadly followed that for freight tonnage."

Similar trends are shown between goods vehicles crossing the three strategic 'cordons' in London (central, inner and outer). The use of light goods vehicles under 3.5 tonnes GVVV has doubled since 1973 and rose by 25% between 1999 and 2007 The flow of vans in the inner London cordon was on the increase until 2002, but has been declining ever since.

This is broadly in line with the general trend for inner London traffic.

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