The line graph illustrates the amount of goods transported in the UK via four distinct types of transportation over a period of 32 years.
It is evident that transporting goods by road was consistently the most common type of transportation in the UK throughout the given timeframe. Moreover, all modes of transportation had a higher volume of transported goods at the end of the period compared to the beginning.
In 1974, while the volume of goods transported via pipeline was negligible, road transport was the most common form of cargo transportation. In the same year, both water and rail transported an equal amount, roughly 40 million tonnes. By 1986, although the figure for transportation via water had risen to a high of 60 million tonnes, rail transport experienced a decline, moving only about 30 million tonnes of cargo.
Over the following years, despite slight fluctuations, road transport of goods consistently showed an upward trend, peaking at around 100 million tonnes in 2002. This upward trend was also seen in transportation via rail and water, which by the of the period transported more than 40 and 60 million tonnes of goods, respectively. Conversely, the figures for cargo transportation via pipeline stabilised at roughly 20 million tonnes from 1995 until 2002.