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Road traffic statistics

Data and statistics about the vehicle miles travelled by vehicle type, road category and region.

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From:
Department for Transport
Published:
8 August 2013
Last updated:
25 June 2026
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  1. Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain: April 2025 to March 2026 published.

  2. Road traffic estimates in Great Britain: 2025 published.

  3. Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain: October 2024 to September 2025 published.

  4. Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain: July 2024 to June 2025 published.

  5. Provisional road traffic estimates for April 2024 to March 2025 published.

  6. Road traffic estimates in Great Britain for 2024 published.

  7. Provisional road traffic estimates in Great Britain for October 2023 to September 2024 published.

  8. Provisional road traffic estimates in Great Britain for July 2023 to June 2024 published.

  9. Provisional road traffic estimates for April 2023 to March 2024 published.

  10. Road traffic estimates in Great Britain for 2023 added.

  11. Updating for October 2022 to September 2023 publication.

  12. Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain, July 2022 to June 2023 added.

  13. Road traffic estimates in Great Britain for 2022 added.

  14. Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain, October 2021 to September 2022 added.

  15. Road traffic estimates annual report for 2021 and the latest quarterly provisional road traffic statistics added.

  16. Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain, October 2020 to September 2021 added.

  17. Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain for July 2020 to June 2021 added.

  18. Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain: April 2020 to March 2021 added to collection.

  19. Road traffic estimates in Great Britain 2020 publication added to collection.

  20. Provisional road traffic estimates for October 2019 to September 2020 added to collection.

  21. Provisional road traffic estimates for July 2019 to June 2020 added to the latest road traffic statistics section.

  22. Text updated and road traffic estimates for Great Britain 2019 report added to collection.

  23. Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain: April 2019 to March 2020 report added to collection.

  24. Collection page updated for provisional road traffic estimates, October 2018 to September 2019 publication.

  25. Updated collection page for 'Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain: July 2018 to June 2019'.

  26. New statistics release published - Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain: April 2018 to March 2019.

  27. New release published, road traffic annual estimates for 2018.

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The Department for Transport (DfT) publishes estimates of Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) traffic within the road traffic statistics. We are seeking users’ views on a change to how HGV data is collected for road traffic statistics. From 2028, roadside counts of HGV traffic will be simplified into two categories: rigid and articulated vehicles. This change will not affect the information available on total HGV traffic within the published summary statistics.  It will impact the level of disaggregation available for HGVs by number of axles in the count point level data that is available to download via the road traffic geographic website and API.

We are inviting users to provide comments on the proposed change by 31 August 2026.

Further details can be found here: Change of Heavy Goods Vehicle Classification in Road Traffic Estimates: user engagement

Latest road traffic statistics

Road traffic statistics provide estimates of the vehicle miles travelled each year in Great Britain by vehicle type, road category and region. We release both quarterly and annual estimates. To monitor transport activity on a timelier basis for topical issues relating to transport, daily traffic trends are published monthly.

Our geographical website allows users to view and download estimated traffic flows on every link of the ‘A’ road and motorway network in Great Britain. The interactive map provides a mapped background to identify traffic flows in specific areas of the country.

Road traffic information on current and previous road traffic estimates are available.

Road traffic data tables

About the road traffic statistics data and reports

All of the statistics published are accredited official statistics. These statistics were assessed by the UK Statistics Authority and confirmed as an accredited official statistic in February 2013. We provide further details on the status of these statistics and changes to them.

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