The chart illustrates the number of kilometers travelled by passengers using five types of transport in the UK between 1990 and 2000.
Overall, travel by air, bus, rail, and all forms of transport combined showed a slight increase, while the opposite was true for bicycles and motorbikes. Throughout the period, buses and railways remained the dominant modes of transport.
In 1990, around 47 billion passenger kilometers were recorded for buses, slightly higher than rail at about 46 billion. Over the following decade, these figures rose modestly to approximately 48 billion and 47 billion respectively.
As for the remaining modes, the distances travelled by bicycle, motorbike, and air were about 5, 6, and 4 billion passenger kilometers respectively in 1990. By 2000, bicycle and motorbike travel had declined slightly to around 4 billion, whereas air travel increased to nearly 6 billion.
Another notable feature is that the total number of passenger kilometers across all modes rose steadily from roughly 110 billion in 1990 to about 115 billion in 2000.