The line chart illustrates the amount of wares transported throughout the UK between 1974 and 2002 by four different forms of carriers.
Overall, it is apparent that road shipment was the most preferred means out of the four options across the whole time period, accompanied with a general upward trend. Pipeline, despite maintaining an absolute positive increase, remained at the bottom of the chart. Meanwhile, water and rail are the two methods that saw a lot of fluctuations.
Upon closer observations, it is visible that across its uprise, inland transportation suffered two slight declines during two periods, 1978-1982 and around 1994. This, however, did not have too much unwanted influence on land transport, as in 2002, it had almost 100 million tonnes delivered, a result of a total of about 30 million tonnes surge across the timespan. Conveyor, despite seeing minute usage in 1974, saw two different upsoar, and soon shot up to more than 20 million tonnes transported sometime after 1994, and remained like that until the end of the chart. Train transport had the most instability in its trend, starting with exactly 40 million, after witnessing rises and falls back-to-back, did not see any meaningful shift from its starting value, and were surpassed by water transport. Cargo ships, originally carrying close to 40 million tonnes, soon saw a spike in 1978 followed by a slow climb that increased the number to close to 60 million tonnes. After a slight decline, it saw a final spike in 1998 to surpass the 60 million mark, surpassing rails as the second-most preferred method.
The line chart illustrates the amount of wares transported throughout the UK between 1974 and 2002 by four
different
forms of carriers.
Overall
, it is apparent that road shipment was the most preferred means out of the four options across the whole time period,
accompanied with
a general upward trend. Pipeline, despite maintaining an absolute
positive
increase, remained at the bottom of the chart. Meanwhile, water and rail are the two methods that
saw
a lot of
fluctuations.
Upon closer observations, it is visible that across its uprise, inland transportation suffered two slight declines during two periods, 1978-1982 and around 1994. This,
however
, did not have too much unwanted influence on land transport, as in 2002, it had almost 100
million
tonnes delivered, a result of a total of about 30
million
tonnes surge across the
timespan
. Conveyor, despite seeing minute usage in 1974,
saw
two
different
upsoar
, and
soon
shot up to more than 20
million
tonnes transported sometime after 1994, and remained like that until the
end
of the chart. Train transport had the most instability in its trend, starting with exactly 40
million
, after witnessing rises and falls back-to-back, did not
see
any meaningful shift from its starting value, and
were surpassed
by water transport. Cargo ships,
originally
carrying close to 40
million
tonnes,
soon
saw
a spike in 1978 followed by a slow climb that increased the number to close to 60
million
tonnes. After a slight decline, it
saw
a final spike in 1998 to surpass the 60
million
mark, surpassing rails as the second-most preferred method.