The bar chart illustrates how children aged 5-12 use various modes of transportation to travel to and from school in different years 1900 and 2010.
There has been a dramatic increase in transportation by car which almost tripled from 1990 to 2010 making it the most prefered transportation among children, whereas all other modes saw a decline in terms of number of trips in the same period. A sharp decline is witnessed in use of walking as a mode of transportation.
Travel through car has increased from around 4 million trips in 1990 to a little above 11 million trips in the following 20 years whereas there is a decline in walking which children used to travel around 12.5 million trips in 1990 to 6 million trips in 2010. In terms of percentage decrease cycling takes the first spot as this mode has dropped from 6 million to 2 million which is a 66.6% low from 1990.