Reliability of journeys on Highways Agency's motorway and 'A' road network: December 2011

Publisher:Department for Transport
Published date: 9 February 2012
Type:Release
Series:Congestion and reliability

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Summary

This statistical release presents information about the reliability of journeys on motorways and ‘A’ roads managed by the Highways Agency during December 2011.

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Key points

  • In the year ending December 2011, provisional data shows that 83.5 per cent of journeys on the Highways Agency managed network were ‘on time’. This is 0.9 percentage points higher than the year ending November 2011.
  • Provisional data shows that 79.1 per cent of journeys on the Highways Agency network during December 2011 were ‘on time’, up 10.7 percentage points from December 2010.
  • While the recent increases in reliability will be heavily influenced by the better weather experienced during November and December 2011 than 2010, the percentage of journeys ‘on time’ has generally been on an upward trend over the last 10 months.

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