The graph below shows the quantities of goods transported in the UK between 1974 and 2002 by four different modes of transport.

The line graph compares the supply of

goods

transported in the United Kingdom from 1974 to 2002 via

road

,

water

,

rail

and pipeline.

Overall

,

road

transportation

and

water

transportation

carried more

quantity

of

goods

in the

UK

than the amount carried by pipelines and rails.

According to

the given data,

initially

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in 1974, more than 70

million

tonnes of products were transported to the

UK

on the

road

while

around 40

million

tonnes were transported via

water

and

rail

transportation

. The least

quantity

of supplies (around 5

million

tonnes) was transported in pipelines in

this

same year. Over the year, the number of

goods

transported via

road

increased with some fluctuations and reached about 100

million

tons

in 2002.

Water

transport was used more for transporting

goods

to the

UK

and except in 1998, the number of

goods

transported by the waterway kept on increasing and

finally

reached over 60

million

tons

in 2002. The use of the

rail

transportation

system for carrying

goods

to the

UK

got reduced as less

quantity

of

goods

were transported by in

rail

later years but

finally

, the

quantity

reached 40

million

tons

in 2002.

Finally

,

goods

carried by pipelines increased over the year reaching over 20

million

tons

in 2002.