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Annual bus statistics: year ending March 2020

Local bus statistics in Great Britain for the year ending March 2020.

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Annual bus statistics: year ending, March 2020 tables

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Local bus statistics in Great Britain, including passengers, mileage and vehicle fleet, for the year ending March 2020. The summary relates only to England to match the coverage of Department for Transport bus policy, but the tables also cover Scotland and Wales.

In the year ending March 2020, the number of bus passenger journeys:

  • decreased by 5.5% in England
  • decreased by 4.9% in London
  • decreased by 6.2% in England outside of London

In the year ending March 2019, bus service mileage:

  • decreased by 3.1% in England
  • decreased by 0.2% in London
  • decreased by 4.1% in England outside of London

At March 2020, 99% of buses in England had the accessibility certificate which was required for all buses operating local services by 2017 at the latest (100% of buses in London and 99% of buses in England outside of London).

This publication covers the year to 31 March 2020, which includes a period after movement restrictions due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) were announced in March. The collection of passenger data is not granular enough to distinguish numbers of passenger journeys before and after the restrictions were announced. An indication of changes in bus passenger volume during this period can be found in the separate weekly release covering transport use during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Published 28 October 2020

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