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Getting to the bottom of the DfT’s road freight stats

Paul Withrington, Director, Transport-Watch, Northampton NN2
14 June 2013
 

You report our finding that road freight is underestimated (‘Road freight mode split ‘underestimated’ LTT 31 May). Here is the background where the data relates to the year 2010.

We were interested in finding the proportion of the nation’s freight (meaning tonne-km) carried on the strategic road network. To that end we asked the DfT’s Road Freight Stats (FS) team if it could provide the vehicle-km and tonne-km by class of vehicle. That would enable us to calculate...

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