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Travel in 2024 compared with pre-COVID levels

05 September 2025
Trends in trips taken, miles travelled, and hours spent travelling: Great Britain (1972 to 1988) and England (1989 to 2024)
Trends in trips taken, miles travelled, and hours spent travelling: Great Britain (1972 to 1988) and England (1989 to 2024)

 

The National Travel Survey has found that, broadly, personal travel remained similar in 2024 compared to 2023 and therefore had not returned to pre-pandemic trends. This is consistent with Department for Transport’s COVID-19 transport use statistics which show that travel by various transport modes, whilst varying month-to-month, remained below the pre-pandemic reference point. Monthly domestic public transport use has grown during 2024, although it has remained below pre-pandemic levels....

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