GB Road Traffic Counts

<p>The Department for Transport collects traffic data to produce statistics on the level of traffic on roads in Great Britain.</p> <ul> <li>Summary statistics of road traffic are published on an annual and quarterly basis at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/road-traffic-statistics">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/road-traffic-statistics</a> </li> <li>The most user-friendly method to access street-level road traffic estimates, with an interactive mapping tool, is via <a href="https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk">https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk</a> </li> </ul> <p>Data are available for each junction to junction link on the major road network (motorways and A roads). Data are also available for the sample of points on the minor road network (B, C and unclassified roads) that are counted each year, and these counts are used to produce estimates of traffic growth on minor roads.</p> <p>The data are produced for every year and are in three formats: a) the raw manual count data collected by trained enumerators; b) Annual Average Daily Flows (AADFs) for count points on major roads and minor roads; and c) traffic figures for local authorities and regions.</p> <p>An explanatory note (Road traffic data metadata) is available below. A description of how annual road traffic estimates are produced is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-traffic-statistics-guidance">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-traffic-statistics-guidance</a></p>