3.3.4. Energy Use per Public Transport Passenger Kilometer (PKT)

Table 3 also provides the energy use per public transport PKT, and Figure 5 graphs the results. It reveals that Swedish cities have over a threefold difference in energy use per PKT, from a low in Stockholm of 0.76 MJ/PKT (identical to the European sample and almost the same as Freiburg with 0.79), up to 2.53 MJ/PKT in Jönköping, which is only 8% lower than for cars in that city. Overall, Swedish cities consume 1.10 MJ/PKT in public transport or some 45% higher than in European cities, but lower than in the American and Canadian cities. The smaller cities are more consumptive (1.30 MJ/PKT) than the larger Swedish cities (1.00 MJ/PKT). Generally, it could be said that the energy result for public transport in Swedish cities is a little disappointing, with, for example, Jönköping and Örebro exceeding US consumption levels per PKT. This is indicative of a larger public transport problem in Swedish cities related to usage levels, as discussed in Section 4.

**Figure 5.** Energy use per PKT in public transport in ten Swedish cities (2015); Freiburg (2015); and American, Australian, Canadian, European and Asian cities (2005–2006).
