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The line chart indicates the amount of the transport of goods in the United Kindom from 1974 to 2002 divided into four various means, namely road, water, rail, and pipeline.
Overall, it is clearly seen that during the period given the conveyance of goods by road was the most popular mode, while the figure for the pipeline show the lowest in the UK.
As is shown by the graph, the top mode of transports, which is road, had been increasingly used to transit goods from 70 million tonnes to aroudn 95 millio tonnes, even though there were some fluctuation. By contrast, even if the quantity of goods transported through pipeline was seen a lower number than the others, it constantly grew by about 20 million tonnes.
In terms of the remaining categoires, until 1978, the usages of water and rail were sililar, at around 40 million tonnes. However, since 1978, the goods transported by means of water steeply increased and finally the figure surpassed over 60 million tonnes in 2002. Contrastedly, the rail use of the goods transported diclined to approximately 25 million tonnes in 1994, but it rose again to the same amount of the first year by 2002. |