The bar chart illustrates how children from 11 to 16 years old go to school in the UK in a specific year. Overall, the distance between the places where children live and school decides the way students get to school. Additionally, in all distances, cars have the lowest proportion of choices when students travel to school.
For journeys less than 1 mile, the proportion of children who go on foot is the highest figure among all categories, with 90%, astronomically higher than the figure for bicycles, with 50%, nearly 5 times as high as the data for cars, with roughly 10%. The remaining 2% go to the percentage of choosing buses. Meanwhile, over 75% of young students in the UK go to school by bicycles between 1 and 2 miles, while the figure for walking is considerably lower, at 60%. Only less than a quarter of students, 20%, chooses cars as a form of transportation, twice as high as the figure for buses.
In the 2 to 5 mile category, ranked in the first is buses, with 50%, higher than that of bicycles, whereas the figures for walking and cars fall within the range between 25% and nearly 31%. For distances over 5 miles, buses still take the highest position, at under 70%, followed by cars, at nearly 20%, extremely far from the highest.