Official Statistics

Rural transport, travel and accessibility statistics

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Part of: Rural living - statistical indicators and Rural economy and community
• Published: 21 July 2016
• Applies to: England

Statistics on transport, travel and access to services in rural and urban areas.

Documents

Rural accessibility 2013 - by public transport and walking or car

PDF, 1.89MB, 9 pages

Rural accessibility 2013 tables - by public transport and walking or by car

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Rural accessibility 2012 - by cycle

PDF, 776KB, 6 pages

Transport and accessibility to services in rural areas - January 2014

PDF, 700KB, 5 pages

Details

Rural transport and travel

Differences in travel behaviour, levels of mobility and access to services for people living in different settlement types.

Metadata

Indicators:

• travel behaviour
• distance travelled
• car and bus availability

Data Source: Department for Transport - National Travel Survey

Coverage: England

Rural classification used: Office for National Statistics Rural Urban Classification

Rural accessibility to services

Measuring accessibility by the time taken to travel to particular service locations.

Metadata

Indicators:

• the number of key service locations and the percentage of people with ‘reasonable’ access by using public transport /walking and car (2013)
• proportion of target population with ‘reasonable’ access to key services by cycle (2012)

Data source: Department for Transport core accessibility indicators at Lower Super Output Area level

Coverage: England

Rural classification used: Office for National Statistics Rural Urban Classification

Additional information:

• Department for Transport travel time, destination and origin indicators to key sites and services, by Lower Super Output Area
• Rural services statistical series

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Document information

Published: 21 July 2016

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Part of: Rural living - statistical indicators Rural economy and community