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The DfT’s road freight data is still unsatisfactory

Paul Withrington, Director, Transport Watch, Northampton NN2
12 July 2013
 

Your report of the discrepancies between data from the DfT’s road statistics and road freight teams underplays the problem as does the DfT’s report (‘DfT clarifies road freight statistics’ LTT 28 Jun). You correctly cite that the road freight team has 18.8bn goods vehicle-km compared with 26.3bn HGV-km from road stats.  However, for the two to match the 18bn would have to be increased by 40% or the 26.3bn reduced by 29%.

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