The bar chart gives infornamtion about the number of car journeys into the city centre made by residents and non-residents.

The given bar chart portrays the data regarding

residents

' and non-

residents

'

residents

's amount of cars travelling into the heart of the city. It is immediately noticeable that

residents

experienced a downward trend,

while

non-

residents

displayed an upward trend throughout the period. Both groups' journey rates had some fluctuations.

Although

residents

initially

had a higher

rate

, it outraced non-

residents

at the final of the period. A closer inspection of the trends illustrates that

residents

' vehicle journeys

rate

was about 9,800 in 1996, being considerably higher than non-resident's

rate

by approximately 4,800.

Then

, it declined to around 9,200 in 1997 and it slightly increase to a similar amount at the beginning one year after.

However

, the figure depicted a gradual decrease to nearly 9,500 in 1999, reaching the bottom at 3,500 in 2004 and continued to fluctuate steadily to the end of the period

On the contrary

, the percentage of cars travelling to the centre from non-resident drivers was 5,000 in 1996, and it moderately surged roughly 6,000 to 6,500 respectively between 1997 to 1998, prior the hitting a peak of approximately 8,200 in 1999.

Furthermore

, the figure experienced a minimal fluctuation during the next three years, before it noticeably dropped from about 8,100 to 3,000 between 2002 and 2003.

Thereafter

, it grew progressively to almost 5,000 in 2005, outracing the

rate

of

residents

.