Bus Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of (a) the average mileage of buses and (b) bus passenger numbers in the last (i) 12 months, (ii) two years, (iii) five years and (iv) 10 years.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
The number of vehicle miles and passenger journeys on local bus services is available in the Annual Bus Statistics. In the table below we have calculated the average annual vehicle miles and passenger journeys on local bus services in England for the past year, past two year, past five year and past ten year periods, where the past year is the year ending March 2024.
| Past year | Past two years | Past five years | Past ten years |
Average annual vehicle mileage (millions) | 1,009 | 1,007 | 1,039 | 1,133 |
Average annual passenger Journeys (millions) | 3,629 | 3,504 | 3,096 | 3,771 |
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