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.