Thank you for your email received by us on 1 July 2017 asking for information about London Underground fares revenue and concessionary fares usage between 2012-2017.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require. You asked for:
Breakdown of London Underground fares income:
Adult pay as you go - Oyster
Adult pay as you go - Contactless
Adult pay as you go - Single and Return Paper Tickets
Travelcard - Day Anytime
Travelcard - Day off-peak
Travelcard - 7 Day
Travelcard - Monthly
Travelcard - Annual
18+ Student Oyster Photocard
Apprentice Oyster Photocard
16+ Oyster Photocard
11-15 Zip Oyster Photocard (Tube fares only)
Number of London Underground (or TfL) trips made with the following discounts/free fares:
5-10 Zip Oyster Photocard
60+ London Oyster Photocard
Veteran’s Oyster Photocard
Freedom Pass
Jobcentre Plus Discount Card
Senior Railcards
16-25 Railcard
Gold Card
HM Forces Card
Please see the following tables for the requested London Underground revenue and journeys taken respectively. As we cannot separately identify Students and Apprentices or Veterans and Freedom Passes from the data held these categories are grouped together.
When a Railcard discount is loaded onto an Oyster card, the specific type of Railcard is not recorded. As Railcard journeys are not reported separately from adult pay as you go revenue they are included in the latter category
Revenue
Year 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17
Adult pay as you go – Oyster (£000s). 970,893 1,047,076 1,103,280 1,051,420 983,923
Adult pay as you go – Contactless (£000s). 0 0 66,975 317,364 554,091
Single and Return Tickets (£000s). 83,131 85,555 90,164 98,013 91,713
Travelcard - Day Anytime (£000s). 48,805 50,345 47,749 41,929 37,755
Travelcard - Day off-peak (£000s). 190,204 189,537 159,723 107,658 92,171
Travelcard - 7 Day (£000s). 384,391 424,493 435,873 421,631 394,197
Travelcard – Monthly (£000s). 259,836 288,602 294,965 313,370 317,327
Travelcard – Annual (£000s). 120,360 133,373 142,714 143,842 123,092
18+ Student/Apprentice Oyster Photocard(£000s). 62,875 60,853 58,056 54,950 45,218
16+ Oyster Photocard (£000s). 13,289 13,787 15,166 16,047 17,003
11-15 Zip Oyster Photocard (£000s). 11,246 9,039 10,372 10,697 11,515
Jobcentre Plus (£000s). 228 382 576 507 424
Journeys
Year 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17
5-10 Zip Oyster Photocard (000s) 2,910 6,467 5,535 4,956 4,927
60+ London Oyster Photocard (000s) 0 6,494 9,527 12,872 17,076
Freedom Pass (inc Veterans) (000s) 53,398 53,418 53,854 53,398 53,052
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Yours sincerely
Jasmine Howard
FOI Case Officer
Information Governance
Transport For London
