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Written question asked by Lord Berkeley (Labour), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord Davies of Oldham (Labour) on Monday, 20 March 2006.

Airports: Access

Question
What proportion of car journeys to and from Heathrow and Stansted are made by (a) staff; (b) those dropping off and picking up air travellers; (c) taxis; (d) those using short stay car parking facilities; and (e) those using long stay car parking facilities.
Answer

The Government hold the following information which has been extracted from the 2004 CAA passenger survey. Please note that the survey data include only passengers and do not cover people travelling to and from the airport for other reasons—for example, for employment at the airport.

Annual figures 2004
Thousands Percentage
Mode of Transport Heathrow Stansted Heathrow Stansted
a Staff using staff car park prior to travelling as passengers1 50 22 0.1 0.1
b Dropping off and picking up air travellers 7,990 3,365 18.3 18.4
c Taxis/Minicab 11,189 1,401 25.7 7.7
d Short stay car park 3,147 2,043 7.2 11.2
e Long stay car park 1,919 2,544 4.4 13.9
Rental car—Dropping off hire car 1,182 12 2.7 0.1
Airline Car—Courtesy Car (Chauffer driven) 321 2 0.7 0.0
Other (car park) 2 1,765 1,426 4.0 7.8
Total above 27,565 10,815 63.2 59.1
Other—Public transport 16,051 7,483 36.8 40.9
Total 43,615 18,299 100.0 100.0
1 Staff—Only passengers on aircraft. 2 Includes private car—valet service, hotel car park, business car park and type of car park unknown.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
4243; 680 c2-3WA
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Airports Heathrow Airport Motor vehicles Parking Staff Taxis Road traffic Stansted Airport
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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