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

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and pie

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information about why US residents travelled and what

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travel

problems they experienced in the year 2009.

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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

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

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, we can see that 49% of the

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

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, only 6% of

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

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were for social or

recreation

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reasons. Shopping accounted for 16% of all

travels

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,

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personal reasons accounted for the remaining 19%.

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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,

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aggresive

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

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

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the most important travel

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.