The way in which workers travel from home to the office has changed severally over the past decades. The chart below illustrates the percentage change in the number of United States’ citizens that use three chosen transportation methods to arrive at work daily over the last sixty years.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that the general ranking remained the same in spite of some significant changes in the number scale. As a matter of fact, while train users increased by two points of percentage, the bus ones have steadily decreased by their same amount. On the other hand, the average number of drivers has dramatically grown one-third of its rate after a pair of fluctuations between the Eighties and the new century and is expected to continue its rise in the future, together with the train one which is also supposed to keep growing.
In conclusion, although public transportation seems to be people’s least choice, when preferring driving to work instead, it has to be mentioned that there is a significant amount of train users that is forecasted to grow during the next decade.