The two pie charts demonstrate how citizens of Europe travelled to workplaces and returned home in two years, 1959 and 2009.
Overall, most people preferred walking to using other ways of transportation at the beginning. In comparison, after a few years, traveling by car was the most popular, while other modes, despite their growth, remained the least popular at the end.
In 1959, over half of the residents walked to workplaces, although after 50 years this figure had declined by 30% due to the increase in distance, which altered to the 19km. As for the train and bus journeys, both consisted 15%. Nonetheless, bus slightly decreased and remained 13%, while train did not change in 2009.
Journeys by car were one of the least favoured, accounting 10% in 1959. Despite this, it increased significantly to 35% in the next half century. Besides, the number of people who selected other transport was the lowest at first, and after this number grew and made up 12 percent in 2009.
