Road freight activity: slumps to 10-year low
Tuesday 10th February 2009New provisional Department for Transport data for the final quarter of 2008 shows hgv road traffic falling by seven per cent compared to the same quarter in 2007.
Hgv activity in Q4 2008 was at its lowest level since the beginning of 1998. Car traffic also fell - by one per cent, while van traffic grew by one per cent.
Unsurprisingly congestion on the motorway networks continues fall. Provisional figures for the year ending December 2008 show that network unreliability (measured as average vehicle delay on the slowest 10 per cent of journeys) has fallen to 3.5 from 3.9 minutes per 10 miles compared to since the baseline year ending March 2008, a decrease of 9.8 per cent.
