The charts below show the performance of a bus company in terms of punctuality, both actual and target (what actually happened compared to what the company was trying to achieve), and the number of complaints from passengers.

The charts below show the performance of a bus company in terms of punctuality, both actual and target (what actually happened compared to what the company was trying to achieve), and the number of complaints from passengers.
The given bar charts show how frequently the buses from a specific
company
arrive on time for both their achievement and desired
target
,
then
give information about the number of customers complaints between 1999 and 2003. From an
overall
perspective, the
company
lowered its
target
for arriving on time over the years,
however
, it failed to meet the expectations, but 2003. Significantly, the
company
received more complaints throughout the studied period. In the first two years, though the bus
company
aimed for 86% of buses arriving on time, it actually reached 85% of that
target
,
then
bottomed at roughly 82% in 2000. In the same
year
,
it
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was an enormous gap of 3% between the
target
that they set and the real result they created. After declining rapidly, the bus's punctuality started rising gradually in the next two years, staying well above 84%. Eventually, in 2003, the
company
broke its
target
by 2%
,
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and served their customers with the same rates of on-time service compared with that of 1999. In terms of negative
feedbacks
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from passengers, the
year
1999 received the smallest amount with approximately 70 out of 1000 passenger journeys before gradually climbing to reach 120 in the final
year
of the period, in spite of the fluctuation in 2001. Notably, the
company
succeeded in raising the percentage of on-time trips in 2003,
this
year
came first with the highest level of complaints.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words company, target, year with synonyms.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • punctuality
  • target versus actual performance
  • correlation
  • consistency
  • trends
  • passenger numbers
  • complaints
  • assessment
  • measures taken
  • impact
  • effectiveness
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