If this is what most people do, I guess they can feel confident in the mileage offer. I drive about 25-30,000 miles a year just for going to work and back, but few in Europe do such mileage.
Driving Force
Four fifths of annual distance travelled is by car
|  |
Trips per person per year, Great Britain |
People in Great Britain made an average of 1,037 trips in 2006, 4 per cent fewer than in 1995 to 1997.
On average people travelled 7,133 miles within Great Britain in 2006, an increase of 2 per cent since 1995-97. This reflected
a 7 per cent increase in the average length of trips, up from 6.4 miles to 6.9 miles in 2006.
In 2006, four-fifths of the distance travelled was by car. This proportion has remained fairly stable since 1995-97. The average time spent travelling by residents of Great Britain has increased by 4 per cent from 1995-97 to 383 hours per person per year, or just over an hour a day. Of this, around 38 minutes were spent travelling by car.
Men make slightly more trips by car than women, and many more as car drivers. Almost half of all trips made by males of all ages are as a car driver, compared with just over a third of trips made by females.
The number of commuting trips per person per year fell by 8 per cent between 1995-97 and 2006, but the average trip length increased by 6 per cent. Commuting trips accounted for one-fifth of total mileage in 2006, with the average duration of such a trip increasing by 15 per cent from 24 minutes in 1995-97 to 27 minutes in 2006.
Today
Linear Mode
