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 illustrates the volume
movement
of goods moved within the UK by various ways to transport
from 1974 to 2002.
Overall
, goods transported have increased in all modes
since 1974 wherein road
transport
has shown a continuous upward trend, however
, rail transport
fluctuates. On the other hand
, water and pipeline
transport
mode has less movement
in few years.
Initially
, goods movement
through pipeline
mode has shown sharp move from 1974 to 1978 but other modes
have no major movement
. A downtrend was observed in the road
and rail transport
modes
between 1978 to around 1982 in road
and rail transport
. There were no major changes in water and pipeline
transport
from 1982 to 1990 but at the same time road
transport
started an improvement from approximately 70 million
tonnes
to 89 million
tonnes
.
Furthermore
, road
transport
was the favourite among all the modes
of transport
since 1974 with stating approx 70 million
tonnes
and water transport
was the second largest popular which started in 1974 with below 40 million
tonnes
and reached above 60 in 2002. Pipeline
transport
has shown lesser interest since the beginning and stuck with the same number of 20 million
transport
from 1994 to 2002.Submitted by kintans54 on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words movement, transport, modes, road, pipeline, million, tonnes with synonyms.
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