The charts below show the percentage of people using private cars in five Australian cities between 2000 and 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph illustrates the rate of possession of individual cars in Australia from 2000 to 2010.

Overall

, Adelaide had the highest

whereas

Sydney and Melbourne had the lowest. There were

also

upward trends in Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

while

more fluctuations occurred in Sydney and Melbourne. Starting with Adelaide whose figure stood the highest at 70% in 2000, there was a gradual growth until 2009, from which it started to rise more rapidly from slightly over 80% in 2009 to just above 90% in 2010. The next highest city was Perth, with a radical increase from approximately 50% in 2002 to 60% in 2004, showing no significant change by 2010.

In contrast

, Brisbane demonstrated a constant rise from 40% to 50% for the ten years. Turning to Melbourne which experienced a huge drop from 30% in 2002 to 20% in 2003, it showed a downward trend in spite of the continual rise by 10% between 2003 and 2007.

Furthermore

, Sydney stood the lowest at 20% in 2000 and skyrocketed to more than 40% by the next six years and

then

it started to decline to about 30% in 2010.