Transportation Sector
British Columbia and Territories
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 2016
Bus Energy Use (PJ) 8.9   9.7 10.5 10.3 9.0 9.5 7.8 9.5 9.9 7.7 8.1 7.6 7.7 8.4 8.0 7.7 7.5

Energy Use by Bus Type (PJ)
School Buses 2.6   2.6 2.6 2.8 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.4 2.6 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.9
Urban Transit 5.1   5.6 6.3 6.1 5.7 6.1 4.6 5.9 6.1 5.1 5.4 5.1 5.2 5.9 5.5 5.4 5.1
Inter-City Buses 1.2   1.5 1.6 1.4 1.1 1.2 1.0 1.2 1.2 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.6

Shares (%)
School Buses 29.0   26.8 25.0 27.3 24.0 23.2 27.3 24.8 26.0 25.3 24.6 24.6 23.6 20.7 20.7 20.8 24.7
Urban Transit 57.0   58.0 59.9 59.3 63.6 64.4 59.5 62.1 61.5 65.5 66.6 67.1 67.9 69.8 69.1 70.2 67.1
Inter-City Buses 14.0   15.3 15.1 13.4 12.5 12.4 13.2 13.0 12.4 9.2 8.7 8.2 8.5 9.4 10.3 8.9 8.2

Activity
Passenger-kilometres (millions) 8,342   9,420 10,252 10,245 8,877 9,604 9,409 9,413 9,711 8,391 8,801 8,441 8,696 8,925 8,110 7,841 7,722
Energy Intensity (MJ/Pkm) 1.06   1.03 1.03 1.00 1.01 0.99 0.83 1.01 1.02 0.92 0.92 0.90 0.89 0.95 0.98 0.99 0.98
Bus GHG Emissions Excluding Electricity (Mt of CO2e) 0.6   0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

GHG Emissions by Bus Type (Mt of CO2e)
School Buses 0.2   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Urban Transit 0.3   0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3
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 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0

Shares (%)
School Buses 30.5   28.0 26.3 28.9 25.5 24.9 28.9 26.3 27.8 27.7 27.3 27.4 26.5 22.9 23.1 22.8 27.1
Urban Transit 54.7   56.0 57.7 56.9 61.2 61.8 57.1 59.9 58.9 62.2 63.0 63.5 63.9 66.7 65.3 67.2 63.7
Inter-City Buses 14.9   16.0 16.0 14.2 13.3 13.4 14.0 13.8 13.3 10.1 9.7 9.1 9.6 10.4 11.5 10.0 9.3
GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 66.6   67.6 67.2 67.0 66.6 66.2 67.1 67.1 66.6 64.6 64.0 64.0 63.1 64.3 63.2 63.5 63.0

Footnotes:

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