3.3.6. Bus Energy Use per PKT

It is important to consider the relative energy use of the different public transport modes. Table 3 shows that buses are the second highest public transport mode for energy use after ferries. They have considerably more energy consumption than rail modes in every case, but in most cases, they are still less energy consumptive than cars (except in Örebro, where buses consume 14% more energy/PKT than cars, and in US cities, where buses are 4% higher than in cars). In the Swedish cities, buses overall consume 1.76 MJ/PKT or almost identical to the global sample at 1.78. Buses in the larger Swedish cities are a little more economical in energy (1.54 MJ/PKT) than in the smaller cities (1.97). However, clearly, the Swedish urban buses do not perform as well in energy terms as other European cities (1.31 MJ/PKT), which is likely related to their lower levels of usage (Section 4).
