The bar chart illustrates how the number of five different vehicles namely private cars, motorbikes, public transports, trucks, and others registered for use in Europe changed between 1996 and 2006.
Overall, it is discernible from the chart that private cars were the most popular vehicle in Europe over this period, whereas the opposite was true for public transport. Notably, the most significant difference was in the number of Europeans driving trucks over ten years
In detail, approximately 19 million people on this continent used personal automobiles in 1996, before increasing by 26% to 24 million ten years later. The number of Europeans using trucks for transportation was more than 1 million at the starting point, after that, it increased significantly by half to 2.5 million drivers. Similarly, there was a remarkable growth of 33% in the data on users of other means of transportation, respectively 2.5 and 4 million people.
Regarding the remaining types of vehicles, around 1 million, the number of people using public vehicles stayed unchanged over this decade. Notably, the only opposite trend to the general was recorded in the figure for motorbikes when 4 million Europeans using this vehicle in 1996 decreased by 33% compared to a decade later.