The charts show the main methods of transportation for people travelling to a university for work or study in 2004 and 2009. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts illustrate 5 different vehicles, namely cars, bicycles, buses, trains, and walking used by

people

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to attend a

university

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between 2004 and 2009.

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, the number of

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using bicycles, buses, and trains and walking to go to the

university

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experienced an upward tendency. Another noteworthy feature is that cars registered the highest percentages compared to other methods in 2004, but the first place was taken by bus in the year 2009. In terms of cars, there was over half of the number of

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who attended the

university

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used

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mode of transport in 2004.

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percentage rapidly dropped to only 28% in 2009. Other forms of transportation showed a divergent pattern. There were about 33 per cent and 9 per cent of

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, used buses and bicycles, respectively, to travel to

university

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in 2004 before the corresponding numbers started rising to 46% and 16% in 2009. In 2004, statistics showed that 3% of individuals used trains and 4% of

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walked to school.

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, it slightly increased to 4 and 6 per cent, respectively, in 2009.