Transport and environment statistics: 2023 (2021 data)
Environmental impacts of transport, including comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions for different transport modes.
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Historically, the year of publication was included in the report title in line with past naming conventions. From 2025 onwards, report titles will instead reference the data year they cover, rather than the year they are published.
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Statistics on a range of transport and environment topics including greenhouse gases and pollutants emitted by transport. Includes experimental statistics comparing the environmental impact of various journeys in the UK by different modes of transport and carbon emissions from transport by local authority.
Data on the聽emissions from journeys across the United Kingdom, by mode聽is available from the energy and environment data tables page.
Data on journey emission comparisons is also available as an . Further details of how this analysis was conducted can be found in our methodology page accompanying this release.
Data on greenhouse gas emissions from transport by local authority is also available as an .
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