Cars in the UK up 88% since 1980, on a total of 404 billion vehicle kilometres.
The average car has 1.58 people in it, and commuter although business only 1.2 persons per car average.
The numbers are trends from the Department of transport transport report 2008, released the country's key travel trends between 1980 and 2007 examines yesterday,.
It shows that the number of licensed vehicles by 77% increased between 19.2 to 34 million.
The period saw little change in the proportion of households with a car - about 45% - but since 1999 there were more households with two or more cars than households with no car.In 2006 the last year for which figures are available, 26% had two cars, and another 6% had three.
"Increased car use rates, has as disposable income has risen against the small change in the real cost of driving and rising real cost of public transport," the report says.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from domestic transport are slower than traffic levels up, but have since 1980 by 54% increased.
"The report also shows that car has become safer travel."Passenger mortality for cars, the type of transport most commonly used, halved over since 1980, it finds.
"Used vehicle thefts in England and Wales have more than halved, since your mid-1990s peak."
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