The chart below shows the number of trips made by children in a country in 1990 and 2010 to travel to and from school by means of different methods of transport.

The chart below shows the number of trips made by children in a country in 1990 and 2010 to travel to and from school by means of different methods of transport.
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The chart shows the number of trips children made in a country in 1990 and 2010
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to and from school with specific means of transportation.
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, it is visible that all the modes of transport have seen a decrease in popularity over time, the only exception being the car for which the opposite is true. If we consider 1990, the most common way to commute to school was on foot, with over 12 million children doing so. Cycling, walking and taking the bus are positioned
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to one another on the graph, all with a value of around 6
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the car was by far the least used with only slightly over 4 million students. On the one hand, by observing the values for the year 2010, the Car increased drastically in popularity, rising to the highest value for
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year of over 11
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, all the other transportation methods registered lower numbers with cycling being as low as 2
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, a 67% reduction from the over 6
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1990.
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