Band 6+: Task 1: The bar chart below shows the passenger kilometres traveled by different means of transport in the UK in 1990 and 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart illustrates how many kilometers passengers travelled by five different transport vehicles in the UK between 1990 and 2000.

Overall, there was an increase in the total number of kilometres that was estimated by people travelling in the UK, which was the result of the rise in the number of kilometers people commuted by public vehicles. In addition, the figures for those moving by their private vehicles saw a decline to become the least used means in the last year examined.

The total number of kilometres recorded from all five transports after surveying started at 100 billion, after which it experienced growth to about 115 billion at the end of the period. Similar changes, with lesser extents, can be seen in the figures for buses and trains, which rose from 42 billion to about 45 billion and from 40 billion to 45 billion kilometres 10 years later, respectively.

Approximately 8 billion kilometres of plane were shown by people opting to move by this means in 1990, with a subsequent relative rise to roughly 10 billion kilometres after a decade. Conversely, the figures for bicycles and motorbikes dropped negligibly, both reaching 4 billion kilometres over the period.