The line chart compares the average number of UK population traveling each day by car, bus or train everyday from 1970 to 2020, as well as projections for the next decade. Overall, trains and cars recorded a upswing in usage, while the reverse can seen in buses. Additionally, the mentioned trends are expected to continue in the future.
Looking into the data, roughly 5 million people opted to use cars for transportation in 1970, and remained relatively the same for the first 10 years, before recoring a noticeable and consistent increase to around 7.5 million poeple in 2020. This upswing trend is expected to persist to end with 9 million people in 2030.
In terms of train-based commuter, their figure saw a gradual increase from nearly 2.5 million in 1970 to surpass bus’s figure in around 2012, and finished at around 4 by the time of this report. The next ten years, however, are expected to speed up and reach roughly 5. Meanwhile, bus had become less popular as a transportation medium with a decline in usuge, dropping from around 4 million commuters in 1970 to a projection of exactly 3 million in 2030.