Band 5+: The pie chart below illustrates the average commuting time of UK workers in 2009, while the bar chart compares the methods of travelling to work in London and the rest of the UK in the same year.

The pie chart shows the average time required for the UK workers to get their job, and bar graph provide information about the method of travelling to job in London and the rest of UK in 2009.

Overall, the biggest proportion of workers spend over 60 minutes, while the lowest percentage of UK workers reached their workplace in 1-15 minutes. The percentage of workers who spend 16-30 minutes for travel to job was the second most common. Other average time durations such as 31-45 or 45-60 mins were not as popular among employers. Speaking about the method of travelling, the car was the most preferable choice for getting to work for both – London and the rest of the UK, while underground and bicycle were the least preferable type of travel in the rest of the UK and London respectively. There is a wide margin between the popularity of train use in London and the rest of the UK – in London it stood in the second place after car in popularity. Other types of travelling to work such as by walk or by bus were not widely used.

For getting a workplace, the option 60+ minutes was the highest among UK workers, while 5% was the lowest accounts for the time duration 1-15minutes. 33% shows the option 16-30 illustration the second common time duration. For the option 45-60 mins was only 8%, and relatively close proportion with the difference in 4 percent showing 31-45 minutes.

In London the most common method of travel to get a workplace was the car which was used by 36 percent of workers. The second common type of transport were train and underground with the difference only 2 percent where 20% accounts for train and 18% for underground. The lowest proportion of workers used bicycle for travelling to job which is only 5%. The option “walk” and ” bus” showing almost similar proportions where 8% account for walk and 12% accounts for bus. In rest of UK the most common transport was car which was used by 73% of workers, while the lowest proportion showing underground and train – 1 percent and 2 percent respectively. The option bicycle was used by 4% of worker, whereas double proportion account for the bus, and walk option showing the second common use.