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 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
to attend a
university
between 2004 and 2009.
Overall
, the number of
people
using bicycles, buses, and trains and walking to go to the
university
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
people
who attended the
university
used
this
mode of transport in 2004.
This
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
people
, used buses and bicycles, respectively, to travel to
university
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
people
walked to school.
Then
, it slightly increased to 4 and 6 per cent, respectively, in 2009.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words people, university with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "showed" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • commuters
  • sustainable
  • modes of transportation
  • shifts
  • public transport
  • personal vehicles
  • urban commuting
  • environmental awareness
  • economic factors
  • urban planning
  • infrastructure
  • percentage
  • trends
  • stability
  • preference
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