The bar chart illustrates the quantity of vehicles utilized, including private cars, motorcycles, public transports, trucks, and others in European use over the 10-year period starting in 1996.
Overall, it is clear that the number of used private cars was leading in the graph during the timespan. While the reverse is true for public transports, which remained unchanged, along with the highest gap between them.
Looking at the first figures, private cars were the most popular type used by European citizens, accounting for 19 million, which is reported to change by 26% to approximately 24 million in use. By contrast, the number of public transports witnessed stability, which remained unchanged over the period, constituting 1 million.
For the second figures, motorcycle users started at 3 million in 1996 before declining slightly to 2 million.
Regarding trucks and others, the number of users utilizing trucks in 1996 was precisely double that in 2006. A similar trend was seen in the figure for others, accounting for 2.5 million to nearly 3 million, which witnessed a 33% change.