A government report has declared that around 60% of journeys made in the last year were by car. Further, it has been found out that around 1/4 of these were made for trips of less than 2 miles.

A drop in car miles has been revealed in statistics of the Department for Transport (DfT) from 2005. There is a sharp increase in alongside walking and frequent use of public transport. This decrease in the usage of car is a positive step by British people for carbon offsetting.  By using lesser cars, they are saving their environment.
 
In spite of this, uninterrupted rise in the number of cars is shown in the figures.

It was in 2006 that 25 % of households who did not own a car. But the figure show that there were 38% of householders in 1985/6.

30% of households in number did not own a car in 1995/97.
The average number of miles walked soared from 197 to 201, and the number of miles cycled went up from 36 to 39.

An average of 466 miles was travelled by people on mainline railways in 2006 as compared with 461 miles in 2005. It was 321 miles in the year   1995/7.

People travelled an average of the total number of miles last year within Britain was 7,133 miles which includes trips by air.

It amounted to 383 hours of the time spent while travelling.