1. Brendan Curtin, Transport Statistician, CSO
Transport Statistics in the CSO
Brendan Curtin,
Transport Statistician,
CSO

2. Statistical Outputs Vehicle Licensing Road Freight Survey
Maritime Statistics
Aviation Statistics
Rail Statistics
Vehicle Kilometres
Common & Regional Questionnaires

3. Current releases/publications
Vehicles licensed for the first time (monthly)
Statistics of Port Traffic (annual)
Aviation Statistics (annual)
Publications
Road Freight Transport Survey (annual)
Transport Omnibus (annual)

4. Road Freight Survey New Statutory Instrument - S.I. No. 146 of 2016
Move towards electronic data capture
Additional initiatives on quality following TF in Eurostat

5. Road Freight eForm

6. Vehicle Licensing Vehicle licensing figures are compiled from
data supplied by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport,
Driver and Vehicle Computer Services Division.
The data provides details on the number of private cars, goods vehicles, motor cycles and other vehicles licensed for the first time in each licensing authority, classified by make and size, during a given month.
A vehicle is licensed when a valid motor tax disc is issued for the first time. A vehicle is registered when it gets it’s license plate (registration number) for the first time.

7. Vehicle licensing – Private Cars (Table 1 – December & Annual release)
2007
2009
2013
2014
2015
New private cars
180,754
54,432
71,348
92,361
121,110
Second hand cars
58,719
49,464
49,762
52,863
47,217

8. Dual Vehicle Registration

9. Maritime Statistics of Port Traffic
Analysis of activity in Irish Ports
Freight - weight
Number and size of vessels
Type of cargo – dry bulk, liquid bulk etc.
Data collected to meet EU Regulation 2009/42/EC concerning Maritime Statistics

10. Maritime Statistics 2013 2014 % change Vessel arrivals to Irish Ports
11,940
12,204
2.2
Gross tonnage of vessels
209.8m
223.0m
6.3
Tonnes of goods handled by Irish Ports
46.7m
47.5m
1.6

11. Air & Rail
Air
EU requirement, provision of data by airport authorities is compulsory
Information on passenger numbers , freight, number of flights for each of the main airports – type of aircraft/scheduled vs charter
Rail
EU Requirement
Historical basis is stronger
More significant on the continent than in Ireland
Passenger numbers, freight, infrastructure (rolling stock & network)

12. Total passenger numbers handled by main Irish airports,
Air transport
Total passenger numbers handled by main Irish airports,
Number (‘000)
Airport
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Dublin
18,749.1
19,090.8
20,148.6
21,694.9
24,962.5
Cork
2,356.6
2,333.6
2,252.6
2,138.1
2,065.7
Kerry
310.9
286.4
306.0
295.0
303.0
Knock
653.6
677.4
665.6
703.7
684.7
Shannon
1,364.8
1,286.1
1,308.2
1,555.2
1,680.3

13. Vehicle Kilometres Estimation methodology uses –
Vehicle monthly population totals
Odometer data
Traffic counter data -

15. Transport Omnibus
Annual compendium of Transport statistics from the CSO and other sources -
TII, DTTAS, Revenue, RSA, An Garda Síochána, Bus Éireann, Dublin Bus, Iarnród Éireann, Dublin City Council, NTA
Vehicles
Penalty Points
Road Traffic
Aviation
Public Transport
Maritime
Small Public Service Vehicles

17. Main dissemination tool - Statbank

18. Statistical Tables at a glance

19. Other Transport Statistics
Transport Trends
Short term trends
Common Questionnaire
RegWeb

20. Contact Details
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