Light rail and tram statistics (LRT)

Passenger journeys, vehicle miles, vehicle kilometres and occupancy (LRT01)

Light rail and tram fleet and infrastructure (LRT02)

Revenue from light rail and trams (LRT03)

Discontinued light rail and tram statistics data tables

Ceased publishing table LRT0107 (average journey length)

Last year we suggested that we cease producing table LRT0107, which presented the average length of journey on light rail and tram systems. Having received no feedback, we are no longer updating this table. This was calculated by dividing total passenger distance travelled by the number of passengers and should users wish to calculate average journey length themselves, they will still be able to do so by dividing passenger distance by passenger boardings for each system.

Ceased publishing table LRT0401 (light rail and tram stages, distance and time by disability status)

Previous versions of this release have included data from the National Travel Survey (NTS), which gathers data on personal travel behaviour by households in England and can be used to analyse users of light rail and tram systems in areas where such systems exist. This analysis was based on combining several years of NTS data to provide a sufficient sample size to analyse trends.

Data collection for the NTS was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with lower response rates and substantial missing data around the start of the pandemic. Travel behaviours and the profile of survey respondents also changed significantly during the pandemic, meaning the findings will be less comparable to previous years. For these reasons, we are not providing updated analysis of passenger behaviour in relation to light rail and tram systems.