Ideas - Travel Facts

• Amazingly, over half of all our journeys are less than 2 miles.
• A double-decker bus carries the same number of people as 20 fully occupied cars (Source: TravelWise) but takes up a seventh of the road space (Source: Environmental Transport Association).
• Buses and coaches account for only 7% of the total vehicle mileage on Britain's roads (Source: National Travel Survey 2004).
• 90% of badly polluting vehicles can be re-tuned within 15 minutes - (Source: DETR).
• Cycling in Britain represents around 1% of all travel, although the Cyclist Touring Club estimate that if car drivers were encouraged to think about whether using the car was necessary, then cycling could replace up to half of all existing car trips.
• Over the last 20 years average walking and cycling distances have fallen by a quarter (Source: National Travel Survey data).
• Join a car-sharing club. Car sharing is when two or more people share a car and travel together. It allows people to benefit from the convenience of the car, whilst alleviating the associated problems of congestion and pollution.