Transportation Sector
Alberta
Table 12: Road Transportation Secondary Energy Use and GHG Emissions by Transportation Mode
  2000   2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Road Transportation Energy Use (PJ) 252.3   385.7 347.5 331.6 337.9 352.8 361.8 281.2 288.2
Passenger Road Transportation 118.3   125.0 118.2 122.0 124.8 127.3 132.5 101.8 100.6
Freight Road Transportation 134.0   260.7 229.2 209.6 213.1 225.5 229.2 179.4 187.7

Energy Use by Transportation Mode (PJ)
Cars 58.5   45.6 41.8 41.7 41.4 40.6 41.1 30.8 29.6
Passenger Light Trucks 51.3   67.6 66.0 71.2 74.9 77.8 82.2 64.6 64.5
Freight Light Trucks 30.8   38.4 37.6 40.5 42.6 44.2 46.7 36.9 37.1
Medium Trucks 25.2   101.0 90.3 84.1 81.0 84.9 84.8 65.4 69.3
Heavy Trucks 78.0   121.3 101.3 85.1 89.5 96.4 97.7 77.1 81.3
Motorcycles 0.3   0.9 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 1.0 0.8 0.9
School Buses 2.5   2.3 2.2 2.3 1.6 2.0 2.2 1.8 1.9
Urban Transit 4.5   7.4 6.5 5.3 5.6 5.7 5.7 3.6 3.5
Inter-City Buses 1.2   1.1 0.9 0.7 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.2

Shares (%)
Cars 23.2   11.8 12.0 12.6 12.2 11.5 11.4 10.9 10.3
Passenger Light Trucks 20.3   17.5 19.0 21.5 22.2 22.1 22.7 23.0 22.4
Freight Light Trucks 12.2   10.0 10.8 12.2 12.6 12.5 12.9 13.1 12.9
Medium Trucks 10.0   26.2 26.0 25.3 24.0 24.1 23.5 23.3 24.1
Heavy Trucks 30.9   31.4 29.2 25.7 26.5 27.3 27.0 27.4 28.2
Motorcycles 0.1   0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3
School Buses 1.0   0.6 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6
Urban Transit 1.8   1.9 1.9 1.6 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.3 1.2
Inter-City Buses 0.5   0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Activity
Passenger-kilometres (millions) 53,862   62,901 59,322 60,444 63,956 63,991 66,281 52,304 52,000
Tonne-kilometres (millions) 44,758   90,051 83,108 79,988 80,436 77,544 81,688 65,727 68,757
Passenger Road Transportation Energy Intensity (MJ/Pkm) 2.20   1.99 1.99 2.02 1.95 1.99 2.00 1.95 1.93
Freight Road Transportation Energy Intensity (MJ/Tkm) 2.99   2.90 2.76 2.62 2.65 2.91 2.81 2.73 2.73
Road Transportation GHG Emissions Excluding Electricity (Mt of CO2e) 17.7   26.6 23.9 22.7 23.2 24.2 24.8 19.8 20.3
Passenger Road Transportation 8.3   8.4 7.9 8.2 8.3 8.5 8.9 7.1 7.0
Freight Road Transportation 9.4   18.2 16.0 14.6 14.8 15.7 15.9 12.7 13.3

GHG Emissions by Transportation Mode (Mt of CO2e)
Cars 4.1   3.1 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.8 2.2 2.1
Passenger Light Trucks 3.6   4.5 4.4 4.8 5.0 5.2 5.5 4.5 4.5
Freight Light Trucks 2.2   2.6 2.5 2.7 2.9 3.0 3.1 2.6 2.6
Medium Trucks 1.7   7.0 6.3 5.8 5.6 5.9 5.9 4.6 4.9
Heavy Trucks 5.5   8.6 7.2 6.1 6.4 6.9 7.0 5.5 5.8
Motorcycles 0.0   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
School Buses 0.2   0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Urban Transit 0.3   0.5 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.2
Inter-City Buses 0.1   0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shares (%)
Cars 23.1   11.5 11.7 12.3 12.0 11.2 11.1 10.9 10.2
Passenger Light Trucks 20.4   17.1 18.5 21.0 21.7 21.6 22.2 22.9 22.3
Freight Light Trucks 12.2   9.7 10.5 11.9 12.3 12.2 12.6 13.1 12.8
Medium Trucks 9.7   26.4 26.2 25.5 24.2 24.2 23.6 23.4 24.2
Heavy Trucks 31.2   32.5 30.2 26.6 27.5 28.4 28.0 27.7 28.5
Motorcycles 0.1   0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3
School Buses 1.0   0.6 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5
Urban Transit 1.7   1.8 1.8 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.1 1.1
Inter-City Buses 0.5   0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Passenger Road Transportation GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 70.2   67.0 67.0 66.9 66.8 66.9 66.9 69.6 69.6
Freight Road Transportation GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 70.2   69.9 69.7 69.5 69.6 69.6 69.5 70.8 70.8

Footnotes:

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