Transportation Sector
Nova Scotia
Table 23: Bus Secondary Energy Use and GHG Emissions by Bus Type
  2000   2018 2019 2020 2021
Bus Energy Use (PJ) 1.4   1.4 1.4 1.1 1.0

Energy Use by Bus Type (PJ)
School Buses 0.4   0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
Urban Transit 0.7   1.0 0.9 0.7 0.6
Inter-City Buses 0.2   0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0

Shares (%)
School Buses 31.4   26.5 28.3 33.9 35.4
Urban Transit 53.1   68.9 67.2 61.6 61.4
Inter-City Buses 15.5   4.6 4.4 4.5 3.3

Activity
Passenger-kilometres (millions) 1,330   1,781 1,610 1,224 1,221
Energy Intensity (MJ/Pkm) 1.02   0.79 0.84 0.87 0.86
Bus GHG Emissions Excluding Electricity (Mt of CO2e) 0.1   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

GHG Emissions by Bus Type (Mt of CO2e)
School Buses 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Urban Transit 0.1   0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
Inter-City Buses 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shares (%)
School Buses 31.3   24.9 26.9 31.3 32.3
Urban Transit 53.3   70.2 68.5 63.9 64.2
Inter-City Buses 15.4   4.9 4.6 4.8 3.5
GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 70.7   66.8 67.1 65.9 65.8

Footnotes:

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