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# Long description

Figure 3 is a chart produced by the UK Department of Transport that shows the number of tonne kilometres of domestic freight that was moved within the UK between 1990 and 2015 for three transport modes: road, rail and water. It shows that in 2015, 152 billion tonne-kilometres were moved by road (76% of the total), 18 billion tonne-kilometres were moved by rail (9% of the total), and 31 tonne-kilometres were moved by water (15% of the total).