The bar chart compares the proportion of 4 divers transportations usage throughout the commuting to work in one of European city in 3 separate years 1960, 1980 and 2000. The unit is measured in the percentage.

The bar chart compares the proportion of 4 divers transportations usage throughout the commuting to work in one of European city in 3 separate years 1960, 1980 and 2000. The unit is measured in the percentage.
The bar chart illustrates the percentage of
commuters
who work in one
of
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European city via four different
transport
modes (train,
car
, tube, and
bus
) in three different years (1960, 1980, and 2000).
Overall
, we can see that
bus
and
car
were chosen the most by
commuters
in 1960 and 2000
whereas
both modes showed the biggest difference in the number of
commuters
from 1960 to 2000. In 1960, just under 40% of commute workers went to their workplaces by
bus
which was the most among the other
transport
means in the period given
whereas
the percentage of people who commuted by
car
was approximately 5%, and
this
was the least. 20 years later, the proportion of
commuters
using
train
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trains
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and
bus
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buses
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was around 27% and 26% respectively. Meanwhile,
car
and tube as commute mode of
transport
were chosen by just under a
quater
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quarter
of
commuters
. In 2000, nearly 38% of
commuters
selected
car
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as their
transport
which was over double that of
bus
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the bus
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(exactly 15%). The percentage of those who chose to train and tube for commute was a
quater
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quarter
and around
one fifth
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respectively. Especially when it comes to
car
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cars
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, the proportion of
commuters
by
this
showed the biggest gap during the period given.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words commuters, transport, car, bus with synonyms.
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