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 graph compares the
number
of employees and students who used five means of transportation to go to
univerity
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university
in the years 2004 and 2009.
Overall
, at the beginning of the period, most
of
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people
used cars to go to the
university
, but
at the end
of the period,
people
tended to use more buses.
while
,
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the lowest
number
of
people
use the train to travel to the
university
. In 2004, half of the students and employees preferred using cars to go to the
university
, these figures dropped to 28%, in 2009. The second most popular method of transportation was the bus as 33% of the
people
used it, which increased significantly, in 2009, to 46%.
On the other hand
, 9% of
people
use bicycles,
whereas
the
number
increased by 7% in 2009.
However
, walking to the
university
was not a good choice for most
of
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people
, only 3% tend to walk to the
university
and
this
percentage rose slightly to 6%, in 2009. The
number
of
people
who used the train was almost the same in 2004 and 2009 with a 1% difference.
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