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Friday passenger numbers peal and off peak

Request ID: FOI-4533-2324
Date published: 08 April 2024

You asked

Dear Sir/Madam, Hi, I am . I am writing to obtain the information regards the number of passenger on Friday for peak and off-peak hours respectively. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information: The number of passenger on Tube, DLR, London Overground, Elizabeth line, and National Rail services across London and the southeast RESPECTIVELY, for the peak and off-peak hour separately, for the following period: i) 2018/19 ii) 2019/20 iii) 2020/21 iv) 2021/22 v) 2022/23 vi) 2023/24 This information should be made available to me in electronic form if possible.

We answered

TfL Ref: 4533-2324

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 13 March 2024 asking for information about passenger numbers on our services.
 
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:
I am writing to obtain the information regards the number of passenger on Friday for peak and off-peak hours respectively.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information:

The number of passengers on Tube, DLR, London Overground, Elizabeth line, and National Rail services across London and the southeast RESPECTIVELY, for the peak and off-peak hour separately, for the following period:


i) 2018/19
ii) 2019/20
iii) 2020/21

iv) 2021/22
v) 2022/23
vi) 2023/24


Annual journeys are available in our published data (except National Rail (NR) which we don’t hold the data for as we do not operate those services), and the ratio of peak to off peak journeys by mode can be calculated from our NUMBAT data (on crowding.data.tfl.gov.uk). The data can then be combined to get an annual figure. Please see the following links:

Please see http://crowding.data.tfl.gov.uk/ for peak vs off peak travel for 2017 to 2022 (2023 data is yet to be published).

Please see also the following links to our Annual Reports for annual journeys for each of the modes that we operate noting that 2023/24 is yet to be published.

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/annual-report

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/annual-reports-past-years

In accordance with section 21 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to supply you with a copy of the requested information as it is already accessible to you elsewhere.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely


Sara Thomas
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London

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