The given statistics compare five different vehicles in terms of the number of kilometers traveled by passengers in the UK in two years, 1990 and 2000.
An overall observation reveals that buses registered the most popular type of transport over the entire period. It was also evident that all categories witnessed an upward trend in the distance traveled with the exception of bicycle and motorbike. Yet, the total travel rate in the UK still increased.
At the beginning of the period, approximately 45 billion kilometers (BK) traveled by buses, holding the top position among other types of transport , compared to just 43 BK of railways. Far below was bikes, airlines and motorbikes, with their respective figures at all below 10 BK, at 9,8 and 10 BK.Totally, an overall distance recorded in this year was around 115 BK.
Subsequently, in 2000, there was a slight increase in bus consumption, growing to around 48 BK, showing its position at the forefront, while the railway usage just increased to 47 BK. This was followed by airways, rising by around 2 BK. Opposite sites can be seen in both bicycles and motorbikes, but the former experienced a modest decline to roughly 3 BK , the latter showed a little more pronounced trend to more than 4 BK. As there is an increase in usage in three types of transport, the total distance recorded an increase to roughly more than 115 BK.