The line graph compares the quantity of goods transported by differents routes between 1974 and 2002, in the United Kingdom.
Overall, it is noticeable that Road and Water were the most common transportation routes during the given period, on the contrary Rail and Pipeline were the least used itinenaries. According to the data, the most favorable route of transportation in 1974, carrying approximately 70 millions tonnes of good, was by road, followed by water averaging by 58 million tonnes. The least favorable routes where rail and pipeline averging by 37 and 22 million tonnes respectively.
It is apparent that the road trail use kept increasing throughout the years, reaching almost 100 million tons’worth of merchandise in 2002. On the other hand, the water path transported a little bit less than 40 Mt in 1974 then beggan a slight growth from 1978 to 1982 maintaining a consistant state until falling back down in 1998 and surging once again in 2002 with a transportation of a small degree further than 60 millions tonnes of goods.
While the rail track use kept varrying between 30 to 40 million ton’s worth of goods being shipped throughout the years. In the same vein, the Pipeline course was the least common form of transport, carrying less than 10 million tons from 1974 to 1978 but spiked up to more than 20 millions tons in 1982 sustaining a consistent state until a insignificant decline in 1994.