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

The supplied bar

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and pie

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depict why people travelled and the 6 most important problems during their travelling in the US in the year 2009. A glance at the bar

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reveals that almost half the population had travelled to or from work.

It is clear that

the most significant issue of the travellers was the price. Looking more closely at the bar

chart

,

while

travelling to or from work was the main reason for travelling to the United States at 49%, only 6% of the travel’ aimed was

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on friends and families. It can be seen that one in ten trips was for social and recreational reasons. Shopping was cited as the reason for 16 of all travel

while

unspecified personal reasons accounted for the remaining 19%.

According to

the pie

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, the price was the key consideration for American travellers at 36%. Close to 20% of the travellers were concerned about safety. US citizens’ next problems were aggressive drivers and congestion on the highways at 17%, and 14% respectively. Only 14 of 100 people accounted for public transport accessibility and pedestrian spaces as their concerns.