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

The provided line graph compares four different means of transport regarding the commodities transported by them in the United Kingdom over a 28-year period.  As can be clearly seen from the line graph, the most noticeable feature is that road remained the most intensively used mode of transport throughout the

years

.

In particular

, at the beginning of the examined period, in 1974, approximately 70

million

tonnes

of

goods

were delivered to the United Kingdom via road.

This

figure increased with some fluctuations over the next 28

years

until it reached just less than 100

million

tonnes

in 2002. It is worth noting that the second most popular modes of transfer were water and rail whose quantities of transported

goods

were represented equally at 40

million

tonnes

in 1974. Over the

years

, the quantity delivered via the former mode experienced a constantly upward trend,

whereas

that transported via the latter mode dropped with slight variations, standing at around 65 and 40

million

tonnes

respectively.

On the contrary

, it should be mentioned that, despite transporting the lowest quantity of

goods

, pipelines delivered products that amounted to 5

million

tonnes

in 1974 and their number stabilized at just over 20

million

tonnes

from 1995 to 2002. 

Overall

, as the line graph demonstrates, the total figure of shipped

goods

to the United Kingdom rose throughout the

years

, with the road being the most popular.