The pie charts illustrate the percentage of four different types of vehicles used in Great Britain in three separate years: 1965, 1985, and 2005.
In general, it is obvious that while the number of private cars experienced an upward trend, the opposite was true for other categories. Additionally, personal vehicles accounted for the largest share of transport in the UK over the period shown.
As can be seen in the charts, starting in 1965, 40% of people living in Great Britain moved by private cars, which is significantly higher than that of public transportation at 25%. In the following twenty years, the use of personal cars increased sharply by 15%; by contrast, the ratio of public transport fell down slightly to 20%. At the end of the period, private vehicles were considered the most common kind of transport and were used by more than half of people in the UK, while just nearly a fourth of Great Britain’s residents used public services to move.
At the same time, the proportion of trucks and commercial transports remained stable at 20% for the first twenty years of the period, followed by a substantial drop by half in 2005. In addition, in terms of recycled vehicles, the figure declined considerably, from 15% in 1965 to approximately 5% in 1985, and a slight growth of 3% can be witnessed at the end of the period.