The charts illustrate the distance traveled and the time spent by travelers, and three different modes of transport, including walking, private vehicles, and public vehicles, in one country. The data was collected over the period of 20 years, from 1995 to 2015.
Overall, distance was a clear predictor for the change in the time taken by traveling. It is also clear that private transport was the most preferable means, while the opposite was true for public transport throughout the period.
In 1995, the distance commuted was over 6700 miles, after which rose and reached its peak of approximately 7150 miles in the next 10 years, but it later dropped to more than 6600 miles in the final year. A similar pattern was evident in the time taken from travelers, increasing from under 385 hours to 390 hours in the first 10 years, the figure went down to about 170 hours in 2015.
28% of commuters chose walking/cycling as their means of transport in the first year, with a subsequent slight decline by 4% in 2015. In the meantime, a huge discrepancy was seen in the proportion of other private transport and its public counterpart, with 62% of travelers using private vehicles to commute, which ranked first among the given choices, as opposed to only 9% using public transportation in 1995. The preference for both modes increased slightly, going up to 65% and 11% respectively in 2015.