[sustran] Re: Light Rail Energy Consumption

[Perkins, Alan (TSA)]

Paul, Todd and Christof,

Thanks very much for your replies to my request.  Unfortunately I'm still
searching - Paul, as per your suggestion I will follow up with Jeff
Kenworthy.

Todd, surprisingly, as far as I can see, the Transportation Research Board
doesn't even include energy consumption and GHG emissions in its
externalities.  Is this because greenhouse is still low on the agenda, or,
as per some Australian arguments, it can't be adequately attributed a
monetary value...or some other reason?

Christof, there was an interesting chart in the weblink to the UPI
institute, which gave a comparion of primary energy and greenhouse gas
emissions between "PKW HD", "Straba HSB" and "Busse HSB".  Unfortunately for
my purposes it is again expressed on a passenger kilometre basis not a
vehicle kilometre basis, but it looks interesting nevertheless.  I assume
that the compariosn is between train, light rail and bus, but I don't have
any German speakers handy to translate for me, so can you tell me what the
three categories are?

Thanks,

Alan Perkins

Dr Alan Perkins
Senior Transport Policy Analyst
Transport Policy Group
Transport SA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Alexander Litman [mailto:litman at vtpi.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 12:18 AM
To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
Subject: [sustran] Re: Light Rail Energy Consumption



There is a nice new report that has some information on transit vehicle 
emissions:

ECONorthwest and PBQD, Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Public Transit 
Projects, TCRP Report 78, 
(http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/tcrp/tcrp78/index.htm), TRB 
(www.trb.org), 2002.




At 04:26 PM 10/29/2002 +1030, you wrote:
>Dear Sustraners-
>
>Does anyone have information on the energy consumption of light rail?
>
>I need energy consumption in Kwh or MJ per vehicle kilometre (often
referred
>to as the energy intensity).  I have energy consumption per passenger
>kilometre for a few Australian networks eg. Adelaide's tram = 1.2 MJ per
>passenger km (full fuel cycle).  However, figures based on passenger
>kilometres assume certain passenger loadings, which can vary widely between
>systems and dramatically alter the energy efficiency compared with other
>modes.
>
>Also, any information on greenhouse gas emissions per vehicle kiloemtre
>would be welcome (although this varies with the fuel mix used in generated
>the electricity used by each particular system).
>
>Regards,
>
>Alan Perkins
>
>Dr Alan Perkins
>Senior Transport Policy Analyst
>Transport Policy Group
>Transport SA
>Room 702
>PO Box 1
>Walkerville
>South Australia
>5081
>ph +61 8 8343 2436
>fax +61 8 8343 2939
>alan.perkins at transport.sa.gov.au
>http://www.transport.sa.gov.au
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Sincerely,
Todd Litman, Director
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
"Efficiency - Equity - Clarity"
1250 Rudlin Street
Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, Canada
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Email: litman at vtpi.org
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