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

The bar

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and pie

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illustrate reasons why Americans travelled and what problems they

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faced in the year 2009,

It is clear that

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of US residents travelled mainly because of their work and

minority

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of

people

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travelled to visit friends and relatives.

However

, the main concern for travelling was the cost of trips in the same year. In terms of reasons for travel, commute to and from work was the highest figure in the bar

chart

, at 19%.

On the contrary

, only 6% of trips were made by US citizens to visit friends or relatives, which was the lowest figure.

Furthermore

, travelling for personal reasons, shopping, social and recreation accounted for 19%, 16%, and 10% respectively in 2009.

On the other hand

,

according to

the pie

chart

, the main issue

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travelling was the cost of it, which was considerably higher than other problems, at 36%.

Besides

, 19% of American

people

's concern was for safety which was slightly higher compared to the concern for aggressive driving.

Also

in the same year, 14%

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USA described traffic congestion as their

problems

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,

while

the proportion of

people

who thought that access to public transport and space for pedestrians were some major travel issues was,

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8% and 6% respectively.