John Siraut

London

Economist at Freelance

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Rail use is growing - but is split ticketing inflating the estimated passenger numbers?

Nov 13, 2024 | tapas.network | John Siraut |David Metz |Phil Goodwin

THE LATEST DATA from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) records that passenger numbers on the rail network continue to grow after the severe hit they took during the pandemic. ORR reports that a total of 420 million journeys were made by rail passengers in Great Britain in the latest quarter (1 April to 30 June 2024). This is a 7% increase on the 392 million journeys in the same quarter in the previous year (April to June 2023).
34 million cars in the UK - but a changing mix of what they are, and who drives them

Oct 16, 2024 | tapas.network | Peter Stonham |John Siraut

THE LATEST Department for Transport vehicle licensing statistics show there were just under 34 million cars registered in the UK at the end of June 2024. That’s a very big number and if they were all parked up together would cover almost 80% of the Isle of Wight. But there are other equally interesting deductions to be made about the significance of this fleet – eg who owns and drives them, and how is the UK car parc changing as we move towards decarbonising our economy?
‘Lots of vision but little delive

Apr 10, 2024 | transportxtra.com | John Siraut |Colin Buchanan

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Villiers’ transport vision may offer little progress

Apr 10, 2024 | transportxtra.com | John Siraut

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Free parking… will it save the High Street, the Universe and

Apr 10, 2024 | transportxtra.com | John Siraut

Economists see the world rather differently from other people. So, while the majority probably believe free parking is a good thing, as an economist I know it is not – except of course when I’m driving, in which case free parking is an excellent idea!Few, if any, of us like to pay for parking. The writers of the sitcom Seinfeld made this point in a very male orientated way. George Costanza to Elaine Benes: “My father didn’t pay for parking, my mother, my brother, nobody.
The PPP dog that never barked

Apr 10, 2024 | transportxtra.com | John Siraut |Colin Buchanan

John Siraut, Director - Economics, Colin BuchananThe final winding up of London Underground’s PPP maintenance agreements signals the end of perhaps the biggest and disappointingly underreported transport fiasco of our time. Its demise on the 7 May was certainly a good day to bury bad news from both Labour and Conservative perspectives. Transport for London (TfL) was established in 2000 but control over the London Underground was not transferred to it until 2003.
Station usage: a fascinating insight

Apr 10, 2024 | transportxtra.com | John Siraut |Colin Buchanan

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Ethnicity and travel, findings from the 2021 Census

Jan 9, 2024 | tapas.network | Rhodri Clark |Tom Cohen |John Siraut

Introduction In recent years there has been an increased focus on understanding the different transport experiences and usage patterns of women compared to men. However, there remains a paucity of research and data on how people from different ethnicities use the transport network. The 2021 Census provides an opportunity to explore this subject in some detail, at least, with regards to travel to work..
Transport Statistics Great Britain (TSGB) 2023

Jan 9, 2024 | tapas.network | David Metz |Phil Goodwin |John Siraut

DECEMBER SAW the publication of the latest edition of Transport Statistics Great Britain (TSGB) 2023. While it usefully provides various cross modal comparisons and reasonable runs of historic data to enable trends to be analysed, changing statistical definitions and missing data makes comparisons between years more complex. For example, key environmental data for 2022 is not yet available. There are also, of course, the interruptions to ‘normal’ patterns by the Covid pandemic to take into account.
Elizabeth Line lifts rail passenger numbers back over pre-Pandemic levels - and makes TfL one of Britain’s biggest rail operators

Apr 3, 2023 | tapas.network | John Siraut |Peter Stonham

ON A FEW DAYS in late February and early March this year, daily passenger usage of the national rail network exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time. While this was cause for celebration across the rail sector, a key reason for this increase in usage was not a national pattern of growth, but a local one due to opening of London’s new Elizabeth Line.