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INDIRECT ENERGY IN TRANSPORTATION

This report deals with the energy costs of transportation. Although many sources are available on the direct or propulsion energy required for transportation, few deal with the various indirect energy requirements. These include the energy required to manufacture and maintain the vehicles and to construct, operate, and maintain the infrastructure. The procedure developed was to isolate the various elements of the transportation system such as vehicles, terminals, and line haul facilities. For each of these elements the energy requirements for construction, operation and maintenance were estimated. The energy analysis methodology is a combination of process analysis and the application of the energy input/output tables as developed by Statistics Canada. To reduce the various energy requirements to a common basis and to make inter-modal comparisons meaningful, the energy requirements are converted to BTU's per passenger mile or per ton mile. However, the information is laid out in such a way as to permit changes in the various assumptions to be made quickly and easily to allow application to particular circumstances. Finally two test applications of the energy requirement data developed in the study are provided to illustrate how these alterations to assumptions might be made.

  • Corporate Authors:

    IBI Group-Beinhaker Irwin Associates Group

    40th University Avenue, 6th Floor
    Toronto, ONo M5G 1T1,   Canada 
  • Publication Date: 1978-3

Media Info

  • Features: Appendices;
  • Pagination: v.p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00312042
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jul 22 1980 12:00AM