This statistic shows how many billions of kilometres that would have had to be travelled by road in order to transport the same amount of freight that was carried by rail each year between 2005/06 and 2015/16. This is an important indicator of the efficiency of rail freight transport as it reflects the impact on road traffic that was spared by transporting goods by train. The amount of freight transported by train during the financial year 2011/12 would have travelled a total distance of 2.1 billion kilometres if transported by road vehicles instead of by rail.
Number of equivalent road vehicle kilometres needed to transport the rail freight transported in Great Britain from 2005/2006 to 2015/2016
(in billions)
The equivalent distance that road vehicles would need to have travelled to move the amounts of freight carried on rail, which is affected more by volume than by weight.
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GOV.UK. (November 23, 2017). Number of equivalent road vehicle kilometres needed to transport the rail freight transported in Great Britain from 2005/2006 to 2015/2016 (in billions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/463612/freight-train-movements-as-road-vehicle-kilometres-in-great-britain/
GOV.UK. "Number of equivalent road vehicle kilometres needed to transport the rail freight transported in Great Britain from 2005/2006 to 2015/2016 (in billions)." Chart. November 23, 2017. Statista. Accessed December 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/463612/freight-train-movements-as-road-vehicle-kilometres-in-great-britain/
GOV.UK. (2017). Number of equivalent road vehicle kilometres needed to transport the rail freight transported in Great Britain from 2005/2006 to 2015/2016 (in billions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/463612/freight-train-movements-as-road-vehicle-kilometres-in-great-britain/
GOV.UK. "Number of Equivalent Road Vehicle Kilometres Needed to Transport The Rail Freight Transported in Great Britain from 2005/2006 to 2015/2016 (in Billions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 23 Nov 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/463612/freight-train-movements-as-road-vehicle-kilometres-in-great-britain/
GOV.UK, Number of equivalent road vehicle kilometres needed to transport the rail freight transported in Great Britain from 2005/2006 to 2015/2016 (in billions) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/463612/freight-train-movements-as-road-vehicle-kilometres-in-great-britain/ (last visited December 24, 2024)
Number of equivalent road vehicle kilometres needed to transport the rail freight transported in Great Britain from 2005/2006 to 2015/2016 (in billions) [Graph], GOV.UK, November 23, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/463612/freight-train-movements-as-road-vehicle-kilometres-in-great-britain/
