Guidance

Transport Statistics Great Britain information

Guide to Transport Statistics in Great Britain, source documents, accompanying notes and definitions and supporting technical documents.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 12 December 2013
• Last updated: 19 December 2024
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  1. 19 December 2024

     Updates to notes and definitions, accompanying the 2024 release of TSGB.

  2. 14 December 2023

     Updates to notes and definitions, accompanying the 2023 release of TSGB.

  3. 15 December 2022

     Updates to notes and definitions, accompanying the 2022 release of TSGB.

  4. 16 December 2021

     Modal comparisons notes and definitions updated for Transport Statistics Great Britain 2021.

  5. 17 December 2020

     Transport and disability and roads and traffic notes and definitions updated for the 2020 edition of Transport Statistics Great Britain.

  6. 17 December 2019

     Notes and definitions updated.

  7. 6 December 2018

     Notes and definitions updated for the 2018 report.

  8. 23 November 2017

     Guidance documents updated for the release of Transport Statistics Great Britain 2017.

  9. 8 December 2016

     All transport mode guidance updated for the latest data for 2015.

  10. 12 December 2013

      First published.

Documents

Modal comparisons: notes and definitions

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Freight: notes and definitions

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Maritime: notes and definitions

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Vehicles: notes and definitions

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Transport expenditure: notes and definitions

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Details

Guidance on individual chapters and supporting notes and definitions.

Aviation notes and definitions are published in the department’s Aviation statistics collection.

Energy and Environment notes and definitions are published in the department’s Transport energy and environment statistics collection.

As of December 2022, TSGB now covers primarily cross-modal information. As a result, there are fewer tables and chapters in the release. Below are the department’s statistical collections that are no longer published with TSGB, but can still be found on the DfT website, and their accompanying notes and definitions. The Transport Statistics Finder can also be used to locate these tables, either by table name or code.

Topic	DfT collection
Public transport	Rail Light rail and tram Buses and concessionary travel Taxis
Roads and traffic	Road condition (including notes on table TSGB0723) Road congestion Road lengths Road traffic Vehicle speed compliance
Transport accidents and casualties	Rail Road
Walking and cycling	Walking and cycling
Transport and disability	Disabled parking badges