In particular, if you find the area under Velocity-Time Graphs, you will need to calculate the distance travelled during the journey. If you only want the distance up to a certain time, you find ...

The graph above is for an object which is thrown vertically upwards with an initial velocity of 20 m/s. In the time period 0-2 seconds – the object decelerates from 20 m/s to 0 m/s.