The line graph illustrates the four types of cargo transportations volumes measured in tones, which are road, water, rail, and pipeline, in UK within a timeline of 1974 to 2002. Overall, all differents modes of transport increased, while road has been the most popular method over the whole period of 28 years.
In 1974, roadway began with 70 million tones. Despite a slight fall between 1978 to 1982, road transport gradually rise all the way to 2002 and reached a peak of virtually 95 million tones. In contrast, the usage of shipment for goods delivering start below 40 at 1974, lower than both road and railway. However, it excceded railway transportation in 1978 by jumping above 40 million tons and considerably grow to 55 millions in 1982. Following this, sea transportation leveled off around 55 to 58 million tones all the way to 1982 to 1994; it moderately fall to 50 million tones in 1998. Nevertheless, marine transport increased above 60 million tones in 2002.
In contrast, railway started at 40 million tones in 1974 and steadily decrease to 30 million tones until 1986 and created a fluctuate trends until 1994. After that, goods transportation through railway slowely soared until 2002 and ended up just around 42 millions tones.
In sharp contrast to the starting amount of road, goods transporatiton through pipeline was around 5 in 1974. However, it trend had a significant rise to 25 million tones in 1982 and remind steady until 1990. Following this, the pipeline transportation slightly dropped to 20 million tones in 1994 and stayed stable until 2002.