(30 Jun 2013, 9:29 am)tyresmoke wrote Bus passengers might also be up due to smaller operators reporting passenger numbers to Nexus through the Nexusbus contracts whereas they didn't before?
Wouldn't they have had the information in previous years too though? Looking at the 2011 and the 2012 accounts, they claim to operate the same 10% of bus routes.
Looking further at 2012 though, they also state;
- The main contributor to the patronage decline were Bus and Metro, with the number of bus journeys
declining by almost 2.4 million in 2011/12 to 139 million.
- Metro patronage also declined by almost 2.4 million in 2011/12 and fell just below 38 million journeys. The impact that this loss of patronage has on Nexus’ financial performance is kept under constant review.
And back in 2011;
- The main contributor to the patronage decline was Bus, with the number of bus journeys declining by almost 1.9 million in 2010/11.
- Metro patronage declined by almost 1 million journeys in 2010/11and fell just below 40 million journeys, which also represented the 1st year since 2005/06 that patronage did not increase year on year.
Sources: http://www.nexus.org.uk/sites/nexus.org....202012.pdf and http://www.nexus.org.uk/sites/nexus.org....0Report%20&%20Accounts%20-%202011_0.pdf
(30 Jun 2013, 9:13 am)Andreos1 wrote Have bus journeys increased per person or per ticket?
In that, I mean due to the axing of direct services. In the past, a return trip to Newcastle on say the X94 or 21a, would have seen me count as a passenger twice. Because I now need to get a connecting bus to reach the X1, I will be counted as a passenger 4 times (potentially 5 times, due to the axing of a connecting bus on a night time).
I'd say one journey would always be one passenger using one bus.
(30 Jun 2013, 9:57 am)citaro5284 wrote Would GNE or any other private Operator give their commercially sensitive information to Nexus? Is this figure not just for secured work along with OAP and Child travel.
Number journeys are actually published by Go Ahead for each of their groups. Go North East quote 72m journeys in 2012, an increase of 7.3% over the past 5 years. http://www.go-ahead.com/sustainability/reports.aspx