The graph below shows the quantities of goods transported in the Uk between 1974 and 2002 by four different modes of transport.
The graph below displays the amount of
goods
transported in Britain between 1974 and 2002 by road,water,rail and pipeline
.
Overall
, the goods
transportation done by road, water and pipeline
increased gradually over the period of 28 years meanwhile the goods
supplied by rail remained stable.
In 1974, around 70 million
tonnes
of goods
were transported by road which shows that it is the most used pathway for transportation and gradually rose to just below 100 by the year 2002 and the second most is water which is just under 40 million
tonnes
at the starting it took 4 years to reach 40 and seen a huge growth almost it touches to 60 between 1986 to 1990 but from 1998 there was a sharp increase to above 60 million
tonnes
in 2002.
Rail transport supplied goods
with 40 million
tonnes
in 1974 but fluctuation was seen between the period 1978 to 1994 when it reached around 30 which is the lowest for railways and ,finally
it surpassed 40 Add a comma
,finally
million
tonnes
in 2002 which shows stable and the least used is a pipeline
which is just above 0 over the time it reached to above 20 million
tonnes
of goods
which shows a gradual growth in the pipeline
transportation.Submitted by manoj.ysg1999 on
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