We have updated our transport insights document for Q4 2025 – available on this page: Transport Data Insights.
Headlines from Q4 2025:
- Vehicular daily flows on the strategic road network during 2025 were 15% above pre-COVID (2019) levels.
- Vehicular flows on the local road network during December 2025 were 18% below pre-COVID (December 2019) levels; and are 2% below this time last year (December 2024).
- Multi-storey car park usage in Cambridge remains below 2019 levels (-14%). Queen Anne Terrace Car Park usage remains furthest ahead of pre-COVID (+30%); whereas Grafton East usage is furthest below pre-COVID (-63%).
- Retail footfall in central Cambridge is now 19% below pre-COVID levels. All days of the week present as being below the levels seen in December 2019, but Wednesdays (-29%) are furthest below.
- Average Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) concentrations were 29% below the 2017-2019 baseline in December 2025; suggesting that air pollution levels in central Cambridge are still a little way below those seen pre-COVID.
Context: each quarter, the transport sub-section of Cambridgeshire County Council’s Policy & Insight Team publish a slide pack which seeks to summarise how transport and mobility is recovering / has recovered from the impacts of COVID-19.
This includes metrics relating to strategic road usage, local road usage, footfall levels, air quality, car park usage and levels of active travel.
Please get in touch with us if you require the document in an alternative format.