https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/47196/scottish-transport-statistics-2019.pdf
I do worry that the Sustrans Workplace Challenge may not be having the desired effect. Perhaps it should run for longer?
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Scottish Transport Statistics 2019
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Maybe it should be more challenging?
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Good to see them capture all the modes of transport on the cover. Bus, rail, road, walking, cycling, ferry, air and... bridge?
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@Stickman
I like it. Motorcycle helmets and breathing apparatus for pedestrians type of thing?
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@IWRATS: my workplace is full of people doing sponsored ultramarathons, extreme triathlons and suchlike. Maybe a cycle from Picardy Place through Haymarket in rush-hour should be the next corporate activity for the adrenaline-fuelled ambitious go-getter?
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If your colleagues want ideas for how to suffer voluntarily in return for charity donations I have ideas.
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Chapter 5 Road traffic - "15% decrease in pedal cycle traffic volume in the last 5 years"
That must be becasue of all of the segragated routes now, no need to be on the road...
Also "12.5% of driver journeys were delayed by congestion."
Why change mode of transport if you're not being help up. No data on public transport delays, but anecdotally I 'feel' held up by the train more than 12.5% of the time, I'm late for work more than one day every week. I will not schedule 9am meetings as a result. (Congestion is a local phenonema to 3 or 4 places in Scotland, and the enviromental impact isn't sinking in.)
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This is interesting (my bold):
Chapter 13:
2.5 Emissions of PM10 were estimated to be 15kt in 2017, of which transport accounted for 18%. Since 1990, transport emissions have declined by 63%. For particulate matter, the main source of transport emissions is non-exhaust emissions from tyre and brake wear and road abrasion. In 2017, these accounted for 50% of PM10 emissions from transport compared with 14% in 1990. Since 1990, exhaust emissions from road transport have decreased by 79% due to the penetration of new vehicles meeting tighter PM10 emission regulations ("Euro standards" for diesel vehicles were first introduced in 1992). Over the same period emissions from shipping fell by 82% (Table 13.1a).
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So, apart from their being more cars, more driving, no increase in electric car sales, fewer bus passengers, no new rail passengers, a fall in the proportion of trips taken by bike and on foot, more air passengers and more road freight - it's all going just like the Scottish Government planned.
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