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Table 2.2
Number of trips and average trip time by trip purpose in 2006 and change from 1995/97
(source: National Travel l Survey 2006 Table 2.1)
Trips per
person per
year 2006
Share of
total trips
2006
(rank)
Change in
trips from
1995/97
Average
trip time
(mins)
2006
Share of
total travel
time 2006
(rank)
Change
in average
trip time
from
1995/97
Commuting and
business
195
0.19 (3)
-8%
29
0.25 (1)
+12%
Education and escort
education
106
0.10 (6)
-8%
17
0.08 (6)
+16%
Shopping
219
0.21 (1)
-7%
18
0.17 (4)
+4%
Personal business/
other escort
202
0.20 (2)
+4%
17
0.15 (5)
+9%
Visiting friends
168
0.16 (4)
-12%
23
0.17 (3)
+15%
Entertainment/leisure
148
0.14 (5)
+8%
29
0.19 (2)
-2%
All purposes
1,037
-5%
22.2
+9%
business and entertainment/leisure categories have increased in both absolute and
relative terms. The others, particularly visiting friends, have declined.
The trip-duration characteristic of each of the main categories varies. Trips to and
from UK holiday destinations and day trips for leisure purposes are relatively long
and these account for the high average time of the entertainment/leisure category.
Likewise personal trips undertaken for business purposes raise the average time of
the commuting/business category. (Note that trips which are undertaken during the
course of business are excluded.) Overall a quarter of all travel time is spent travelling
for commuting or business purposes.
The total number of trips made by people of different ages does not vary greatly,
except that it is fewest amongst the most elderly, largely for mobility reasons. Women
under 60 make rather more trips than men, particularly in the 30-39 age group.
The mix of purposes however varies distinctively by age including of course the
absence of work-related journeys in the youngest and oldest groups (Figure 2.4).
In general, with increasing age participation in education declines whilst shopping
assumes greater importance. As one would expect, escort trips feature particularly
amongst the 30-39 and 40-49 age groups, social and leisure trips amongst young
adults, and those in their 60s and personal business trips amongst the over-70s.
Overall the mix of purposes does not vary very much between men and women
although evidence of the traditional gender stereotypes is present. Men make 42%
more work-related trips whilst women make 26% more shopping trips. Much the
biggest difference however is in escorting children to and from school. Amongst adults
in the 21-49 age groups women make more than four times as many such trips as men
(119 a year compared with 28). The rapid growth in this type of trip was something of
a social phenomenon, increasing by more than a half in the decade to the mid-1990s
(Dickson 2000) and prompted concern on much wider grounds than simply its travel
implications (Hillman et al. 1990). Equally remarkably however it appears to have
stabilised and even declined a little since.
Trip-making also does not vary greatly according to the income of a person's
household except at lower incomes where the linked attributes of non-car-ownership
 
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