People in metropolitan areas have the shortest work trips at 6.6 miles. Londoners have the shortest shopping trips, averaging 2.6 miles. The length of shopping trips increases steadily with settlement size, to 5.2 miles for residents of small urban areas, and 6.7 miles in rural areas. The average length of a trip to school is 2.8 miles, compared with 1.5 miles in GB as a whole. The average length of a trip to school is 7.3 miles, more than twice the average of 3.3 miles in GB as a whole.
Rural residents are more likely to own larger cars.
This includes details of sampling and the 1999 questionnaire. A list of the main variables is available in the 1997 Technical Report.