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

The given graph highlights information about the number of goods which were transported by using four diverse methods in the UK, from 1974 to 2002 .

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, it can be seen that Road was the only item that never lose its popularity over the period in question

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the other three items experienced a fluctuation trend in the whole time. Looking at the details, in 1974 approximately seventy million tonnes were transported by road and it continued to grow until 2002 and hit a peak at 98. Followingly, both Water and Rail had a similar amount in the first year with around 40 million tonnes but from 1980, Water portions' increased to under sixty

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the percentage of Rail decreased to around 30 and

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, their pieces stopped at 65 and forty million tonnes in 2002 .

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, If we look at Pipeline, it saw a fluctuation trend at which point its amount commenced at seven but

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it improved to twenty-five in 1990 which was the top and again declined to twenty and remained stable until the

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year

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.