The charts below show reasons for travel and the main issues for the travelling public in the US in 2009. Summarise it.

The bar

chart

and pie

chart

give

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information about why US residents travelled and what

travle

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travel

problems they experienced in the year 2009.

It is clear that

the principal reason why Americans travelled in 2009 was to commute to and from work. In the same year, the primary problem of Americans, with regard to the

trips

they made, was the cost of travelling. Looking more closely at the bar

chart

, we can see that 49% of the

trips

made by Americans in 2009 were for the purpose of commuting.

By contrast

, only 6% of

trips

were for visits to friends or relatives, and one in ten

trips

were for social or

recreation

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reasons. Shopping accounted for 16% of all

travels

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travel

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,

while

personal reasons accounted for the remaining 19%.

According to

the pie

chart

,

price

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the price

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was the key consideration (faktör) for 36% of American travellers. Almost one in five people cited safety as their foremost (önde gelen) travel concern,

while

aggresive

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aggressive

driving and highway congestion were the main issues for 17% and 14% of the travelling public.

Finally

, a total of 20% of those surveyed thought that access to public transport or space for pedestrians

were

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the most important travel

issues

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issue

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.