Official Statistics

Road freight statistics: 2015

Road freight activity statistics within the United Kingdom and internationally for January 2015 to December 2015.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 18 August 2016
• Last updated: 22 March 2018 — See all updates

Documents

Domestic road freight statistics: 2015 report

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International road freight statistics: 2015 report

PDF, 481 KB, 10 pages

Road freight statistics: 2015 tables

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Details

Please note: statistics in this release, back to 2011 quarter 2 (April to June) have been revised and replaced by new figures published on 22 March 2018 in Road freight statistics: July 2016 to June 2017.

On 22 March, 2018, the department published Road freight statistics: July 2016 to June 2017, which included a change to part of the methodology used to produce the estimates of the domestic aspect of road freight statistics, resulting in a downward revision in the estimated amount of goods moved and lifted by UK-registered HGVs back to 2011 quarter 2.

More details about the impact of this change can be found on the release Road freight statistics: July 2016 to June 2017. As a result of this, figures from this release have been revised and are not the most up to date.

Statistics on road freight transported by GB and UK registered heavy goods vehicles in the United Kingdom and internationally between January 2015 to December 2015.

Domestic freight activity increased in the UK in 2015. There were increases of:

• 11% in the amount of goods lifted to 1.65 billion tonnes
• 12% in the amount of goods moved to 152 billion tonne kilometres

International road freight activity to or from the UK decreased in 2015. There were decreases of:

• 8% in the amount of goods lifted to 8.2 million tonnes
• 6% in the amount of goods moved to 5.5 billon tonne kilometres

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Road freight statistics

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Published 18 August 2016
Last updated 22 March 2018 + show all updates

1. 22 March 2018

   Note added for revised road freight statistics.

2. 18 August 2016

   First published.