The diagram below indicates why Americans traveled, while the pie chart illustrates the primary issues faced by the travelling public in 2009.
Overall, the most common reason for travel was commuting to and from work, while the most frequently reported issue was the cost of travel.
Turning to the bar chart, commuting for work dominated the chart, accounting for nearly half of the total statistics. One in every five Americans went out for personal purposes, followed by the figure of shopping, which made up 16%, equivalent to the combined percentage of social/recreation and visiting friends/relatives, which was 10% and 6% respectively.
Subsequently, according to the pie chart, the majority of travellers were concerned about the high cost of travelling, which took up 36%, more than one-third of the pie chart. The next three issues – safety cautious, careless drivers, and highway bottlenecks – correspondingly represented almost equal numbers of 19%, 17%, and 14%. Ultimately, both access to public transport and space for pedestrians were the least cited problems, at 8% and 6% in the same order.