Transportation Sector
Alberta
Table 23: Bus Secondary Energy Use and GHG Emissions by Bus Type
  2000   2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Bus Energy Use (PJ) 8.2   9.9 11.9 9.9 8.3 9.5 8.1 9.6 9.8 10.5 11.1 10.7 9.6 10.2 10.9 9.5

Energy Use by Bus Type (PJ)
School Buses 2.5   2.7 3.0 2.7 2.0 2.3 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.5 2.2 2.3 2.2
Urban Transit 4.5   5.7 7.0 5.8 5.3 6.0 4.8 5.9 5.9 6.6 7.1 7.0 6.3 6.9 7.4 6.5
Inter-City Buses 1.2   1.5 1.8 1.3 1.0 1.2 1.1 1.3 1.3 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.1 0.9

Shares (%)
School Buses 30.2   27.4 25.5 27.7 24.0 23.7 27.8 25.4 27.0 26.8 26.5 26.0 25.5 22.0 21.5 22.6
Urban Transit 54.9   57.0 59.1 58.8 63.7 63.5 58.8 61.5 60.2 63.4 64.1 65.3 65.3 67.9 68.1 68.3
Inter-City Buses 14.9   15.6 15.5 13.5 12.3 12.8 13.4 13.2 12.9 9.8 9.4 8.7 9.3 10.1 10.4 9.0

Activity
Passenger-kilometres (millions) 7,918   9,686 11,693 9,923 8,160 9,731 9,841 9,562 9,741 11,722 12,461 12,127 11,250 11,066 11,203 9,969
Energy Intensity (MJ/Pkm) 1.04   1.02 1.02 1.00 1.01 0.97 0.82 1.00 1.00 0.89 0.89 0.88 0.86 0.92 0.97 0.96
Bus GHG Emissions Excluding Electricity (Mt of CO2e) 0.6   0.7 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6

GHG Emissions by Bus Type (Mt of CO2e)
School Buses 0.2   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1
Urban Transit 0.3   0.4 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4
Inter-City Buses 0.1   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Shares (%)
School Buses 31.1   28.1 26.4 29.1 25.7 25.5 29.1 26.6 27.9 27.6 27.4 27.4 26.6 23.0 22.7 23.2
Urban Transit 53.5   55.8 57.5 56.8 61.0 60.8 56.8 59.6 58.8 62.2 62.8 63.5 63.7 66.5 66.2 67.1
Inter-City Buses 15.3   16.1 16.1 14.2 13.2 13.7 14.0 13.8 13.3 10.2 9.8 9.1 9.7 10.5 11.1 9.7
GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 68.4   68.9 68.3 67.6 66.0 66.2 67.8 67.7 68.7 68.7 68.5 67.5 67.9 68.0 66.6 66.2

Footnotes:

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