IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/transa/v29y1995i1p21-32.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Energy consumption in transport in Great Britain: Macro level estimates

Author

Listed:
  • Banister, David
  • Banister, Chris

Abstract

Transport has continued to increase its consumption of nonrenewable energy resources and to emit substantial levels of pollutants despite various attempts to limit that growth. This paper takes the two main sources of national travel data from Great Britain and subjects it to a comprehensive transport and energy-based analysis to establish the links between travel patterns, vehicle occupancy, modes used, and settlement type. The empirical evidence is presented together with interpretations on key factors in the linkages between transport and settlement patterns. Energy efficiency in transport could be increased substantially through higher vehicle occupancy levels, but as trips have become more frequent, dispersed, and longer, this option may be limited. This conclusion needs to be further researched together with the changes in demographic, work, and settlement patterns all of which are likely to compound the trends toward a continuation of the growth patterns in energy consumption in transport.

Suggested Citation

  • Banister, David & Banister, Chris, 1995. "Energy consumption in transport in Great Britain: Macro level estimates," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 29(1), pages 21-32, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transa:v:29:y:1995:i:1:p:21-32
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0965-8564(93)E0004-F
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Brand, Christian & Boardman, Brenda, 2008. "Taming of the few--The unequal distribution of greenhouse gas emissions from personal travel in the UK," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 224-238, January.
    2. D Banister & S Watson & C Wood, 1997. "Sustainable Cities: Transport, Energy, and Urban Form," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 24(1), pages 125-143, February.
    3. Boussauw, Kobe & Witlox, Frank, 2009. "Introducing a commute-energy performance index for Flanders," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 43(5), pages 580-591, June.
    4. Phillips, Martin & Dickie, Jennifer, 2019. "Moving to or from a carbon dependent countryside," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 253-268.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:transa:v:29:y:1995:i:1:p:21-32. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/547/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.