The pie charts compare the percentages of students who travelled by different types of vehicles to university in the UK and USA between 2010 and 2015.
It is clear that the highest proportion of pupils used bus and car to visit university in both countries during the period. By contrast, the percentage of participants who travelled by taxi was lowest in each country over the 5-year period.
In 2010, students’ expenditure on transportation – cars – (car usage by students) was 27% in the UK and 29% in the USA, and this figure climbed moderately to 31% in the United Kingdom and 35% in the USA in 2015. Likewise, the proportion of pupils who visited university by cycle went up minimally from 17% and 15% in the UK and the USA to 21% and 20%, respectively. Additionally, there was a slight increase in the ratio of students in Britain and America who visited university by walking, from 15% and 10% to 18% and 11%, respectively, in the half of the 2010s.
The remaining popular transportation sources were bus and taxi in both countries over the 5-year period. During this period, there was a considerable drop of 6% in British and 3% in American in students’ using bus from 33% and 27% to 27% and 24%, respectively. In 2010, taxi used by 8% of British students and 10% of American students, and this figure reduced significantly to approximately half of these figures in 2015