The pie charts compare the percentages of students who used five different modes of transportation to travel to university in the UK and the USA in the years 2010 and 2015.
It is clear that the number of students who commuted to university by car, by bicycle, and on foot increased in both countries between 2010 and 2015. In contrast, the number of students who travelled to the university by bus and taxi decreased in each country over the 5-year period.
In 2010, the percentage of students who travelled to the university by car was 27% in the UK and 29% in the USA, and these figures increased to 30% and 35%, respectively, in 2015. Between 2010 and 2015, there was an increase of almost 5% in the number of students who commuted by bicycle in both the UK and the USA between 2010 and 2015. Similarly, the tendency to walk to university also rose slightly in both countries over the same period.
The remaining two modes of transportation in the UK and the USA during the period from 2010 to 2015 were bus and taxi. From 2010 to 2015, the percentage of students who travelled by bus in the UK and the USA decreased from 33% and 27% to 29% and 24%, respectively. Meanwhile, the number of taxi users also decreased by almost half in both countries over the same period.