Transportation Sector
Nova Scotia
Table 12: Road Transportation Secondary Energy Use and GHG Emissions by Transportation Mode
  2000   2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Road Transportation Energy Use (PJ) 55.1   48.6 56.9 56.6 58.9 60.8 59.3 49.6 52.5
Passenger Road Transportation 34.8   28.6 35.7 36.4 37.5 38.0 37.2 30.6 31.7
Freight Road Transportation 20.2   20.1 21.2 20.1 21.4 22.7 22.1 19.1 20.8

Energy Use by Transportation Mode (PJ)
Cars 19.3   13.9 17.1 16.8 16.6 16.0 15.3 12.2 12.3
Passenger Light Trucks 14.0   13.1 17.0 18.1 19.3 20.4 20.4 17.2 18.2
Freight Light Trucks 4.1   3.8 4.9 5.2 5.5 5.8 5.8 4.9 5.3
Medium Trucks 3.7   4.4 4.8 4.6 4.8 5.2 5.0 4.2 4.6
Heavy Trucks 12.5   11.9 11.5 10.3 11.1 11.7 11.2 9.9 10.9
Motorcycles 0.1   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2
School Buses 0.4   0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
Urban Transit 0.7   1.0 1.0 0.8 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.7 0.6
Inter-City Buses 0.2   0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0

Shares (%)
Cars 35.1   28.7 30.1 29.8 28.2 26.4 25.8 24.6 23.5
Passenger Light Trucks 25.5   26.9 29.8 31.9 32.8 33.5 34.4 34.6 34.6
Freight Light Trucks 7.4   7.7 8.5 9.1 9.4 9.6 9.8 9.9 10.0
Medium Trucks 6.7   9.1 8.4 8.2 8.1 8.6 8.4 8.5 8.7
Heavy Trucks 22.7   24.4 20.3 18.2 18.9 19.3 18.9 20.0 20.8
Motorcycles 0.2   0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
School Buses 0.8   0.7 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7
Urban Transit 1.3   2.0 1.7 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.3 1.2
Inter-City Buses 0.4   0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Activity
Passenger-kilometres (millions) 18,663   17,073 21,336 21,781 22,936 23,029 22,509 19,080 19,773
Tonne-kilometres (millions) 7,162   7,180 7,762 7,840 8,068 7,577 7,515 6,657 7,174
Passenger Road Transportation Energy Intensity (MJ/Pkm) 1.87   1.67 1.68 1.67 1.63 1.65 1.65 1.60 1.60
Freight Road Transportation Energy Intensity (MJ/Tkm) 2.83   2.79 2.73 2.56 2.65 3.00 2.93 2.86 2.90
Road Transportation GHG Emissions Excluding Electricity (Mt of CO2e) 3.9   3.3 3.9 3.8 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.5 3.7
Passenger Road Transportation 2.5   1.9 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.1 2.2
Freight Road Transportation 1.4   1.4 1.5 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.3 1.5

GHG Emissions by Transportation Mode (Mt of CO2e)
Cars 1.4   0.9 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.9
Passenger Light Trucks 1.0   0.9 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.3
Freight Light Trucks 0.3   0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4
Medium Trucks 0.3   0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3
Heavy Trucks 0.9   0.8 0.8 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.8
Motorcycles 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
School Buses 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Urban Transit 0.1   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
Inter-City Buses 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shares (%)
Cars 35.0   28.1 29.6 29.4 27.8 26.0 25.4 24.5 23.4
Passenger Light Trucks 25.6   26.3 29.3 31.5 32.4 33.0 33.9 34.5 34.6
Freight Light Trucks 7.4   7.6 8.4 9.0 9.2 9.4 9.7 9.9 10.0
Medium Trucks 6.5   9.3 8.6 8.4 8.3 8.7 8.6 8.6 8.8
Heavy Trucks 22.9   25.4 21.2 19.0 19.8 20.2 19.8 20.2 21.1
Motorcycles 0.1   0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
School Buses 0.8   0.7 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6
Urban Transit 1.3   2.0 1.8 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.3 1.2
Inter-City Buses 0.4   0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Passenger Road Transportation GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 70.5   67.2 67.2 67.1 67.1 67.1 67.1 70.0 70.0
Freight Road Transportation GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 70.5   70.1 69.9 69.7 69.7 69.7 69.6 70.7 70.8

Footnotes:

1) Data on GHG emissions are presented excluding GHG emissions related to electricity production.