The reports relate to accidents which occur on the public highway, involve a vehicle, result in death or personal injury and become known to the police. This section deals with freight lifted and moved by road. The national statistics are derived from DETR's Continuing Survey of Road Goods Transport which collects journey details of a sample of goods vehicles. The international statistics are derived from the International Road Haulage Survey. 11.24 Coastal shipping in table 11E1 covers Scottish coastwise shipping plus UK coastwise shipping with destination Scotland, less double counting of freight at origin and destination ports.
Coastal shipping excludes foreign and one port freight shipping.
The coverage of coastal shipping is different from the water transport port statistics provided in tables 11Gl to 11G6 where domestic water transport covers coastwise and one port freight shipping, but does not exclude double counting of freight at origin and destination ports. Rail Services 11.25 Table 11F1 relates to passenger and freight traffic originating in Scotland on ScotRail, InterCity and Freight Services and based on DETR figures, in which actual returns are scaled so that all GB regions' freight figures sum to a separately calculated GB total. The parcels forwarded information is compiled from data received from Red Star Parcels. The total numbers of passenger journeys originating in Scotland in 1993-94 and subsequent years have been estimated by The Scottish Office using information supplied by ScotRail and an allowance for the passenger numbers for other operators. Further information on UK civil aviation is available in the CAA's regular publications.