Changing travel patterns with time

The travel habits of the people are changing with time as depicted from the data obtained from Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU). For increasing population and the daily commuters from the adjoining states, the CTU has been adding more n more buses regularly. The trend of the last decade shows very sharp increase in the buses of local transport from 286 in 2008 to 455 in 2015 and simultaneously the average trips of these buses has also been increased from 2282 to 3065 for fraying the daily commuters. This table shows the increasing burden of the population on transportation and traffic of the city. 

The graph below describes  the comparison of travel habits of passengers from different areas to the city, which can be connected to the increasing vehicular traffic in the Chandigarh. The trend shows that the  passengers traveling through public transport from adjoining states including local  areas also, are decreasing in the current years, which correlates with the selection of people to travel through personal vehicles. Specially the interstate passengers traveling per day through public transport are decreasing sharply as they prefer to travel by personal automobiles.