The charts below show reasons for travel and the main issues for the travelling public in the US in 2009.
The bar chart compares the proportion of five different reasons why Americans travelled and the pie chart illustrates six main problems for public transport in the US in 2009.
Overall, it is clear that the main reason why people in the US travelled was to commute to and from work. In addition, the price of travel was the most significant problem for passengers during the same year.
In 2009, almost half trips made by US citizens were to go to and from their workplaces. This percentage was far higher than the figures for journeys for purposes of shopping and personal reasons, at 16% and 19% respectively. However, one in ten trips was for social or recreational activities while visiting friends or relatives accounted for the lowest proportion of only 6%.
Regarding to the pie chart, the proportion of problems related to the cost of travelling was 36% which was nearly twice as high as that for issues about safety and aggressive drivers. While highway congestion was the main issue for 14% of the travelling public, the access to public transport and space for pedestrians were less important problems with just under 10%
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, regarding, so, while, as for, as to, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 7.0 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 8.0 5.60731707317 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 33.7804878049 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 3.97073170732 126% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 950.0 965.302439024 98% => OK
No of words: 192.0 196.424390244 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94791666667 4.92477711251 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72241943641 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68432871678 2.65546596893 101% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 106.607317073 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609375 0.547539520022 111% => OK
syllable_count: 276.3 283.868780488 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.2930778524 43.030603864 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.75 112.824112599 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 22.9334400587 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.625 5.23603664747 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 1.13902439024 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.466305960637 0.215688989381 216% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.203853789775 0.103423049105 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105405703807 0.0843802449381 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301444941652 0.15604864568 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0861320309115 0.0819641961636 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.2329268293 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 61.2550243902 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 11.4140731707 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.06136585366 105% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 40.7170731707 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.4329268293 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, regarding, so, while, as for, as to, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 7.0 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 8.0 5.60731707317 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 33.7804878049 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 3.97073170732 126% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 950.0 965.302439024 98% => OK
No of words: 192.0 196.424390244 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94791666667 4.92477711251 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72241943641 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68432871678 2.65546596893 101% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 106.607317073 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609375 0.547539520022 111% => OK
syllable_count: 276.3 283.868780488 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.2930778524 43.030603864 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.75 112.824112599 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 22.9334400587 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.625 5.23603664747 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 1.13902439024 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.466305960637 0.215688989381 216% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.203853789775 0.103423049105 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105405703807 0.0843802449381 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301444941652 0.15604864568 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0861320309115 0.0819641961636 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.2329268293 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 61.2550243902 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 11.4140731707 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.06136585366 105% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 40.7170731707 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.4329268293 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.