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ARE WE REACHING A PLATEAU OR “PEAK” TRAVEL?

TRENDS IN PASSENGER TRANSPORT IN SIX INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES



      Paper submitted to 2010 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

                     Adam Millard-Ball1 and Lee Schipper2




    (1) Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)
                                 Stanford University
           Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building – 4210
                                    473 Via Ortega
                                 Stanford, CA, 94305

                              Tel: (415) 225-2895
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                          E-mail: adammb@stanford.edu

                      (2) Precourt Energy Efficiency Center
                               Stanford University
               Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building
                                  473 Via Ortega
                               Stanford, CA, 94305

                                        and

                    Global Metropolitan Studies, U.C. Berkeley

                          E-mail: mrmeter@stanford.edu



                             Revised November 2009

                       4,746 words plus 11 figures and tables
Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                              2


ABSTRACT
Projections of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for industrialized countries typically
show continued growth in vehicle ownership, vehicle use and overall travel demand. This
represents a continuation of trends from the 1970s through the early 2000s. This paper presents a
descriptive analysis of cross-national passenger transport trends in six industrialized countries,
providing evidence to suggest that these trends may have halted. Through decomposing
passenger transport energy use into activity, mode structure and energy intensity, we show that
increases in total activity (passenger travel) have been the driving force behind increased energy
use, offset somewhat by declining energy intensity. We show that total activity growth has halted
relative to GDP in recent years in the six countries examined. If these trends continue, it is
possible that accelerated decline in the energy intensity of car travel; stagnation in total travel per
capita; some shifts back to rail and bus modes; and at least somewhat less carbon per unit of
energy could leave the absolute levels of emissions in 2020 or 2030 lower than today.
1   INTRODUCTION
 2   The transport sector’s trends of more people; owning more cars; owning larger and more
 3   powerful cars; and driving more have sometimes seemed inexorable. With the exception of the
 4   1970s oil price shock and the recent fuel price hike, most industrialized countries have continued
 5   on a steady path of motorization. Developing countries, meanwhile, seem poised to follow these
 6   trends [1]. The International Energy Agency projects an average annual increase in global
 7   transport energy demand of 1.5% between 2006 and 2030, although this does represent a slowing
 8   from 2.3% annual growth over the 1980-2006 period [2].
 9            Efforts to reduce the carbon intensity of fuels have so far been largely unsuccessful, even
10   if plug-in hybrids and second-generation biofuels have long-term promise. Past improvements in
11   vehicle efficiency, meanwhile, have often been negated by increases in power and weight,
12   leaving fuel economy constant. Future increases in fuel economy – for example through more
13   stringent regulation – may be counteracted by increased vehicle travel. In the U.S., projected
14   annual increases in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) will leave carbon emissions roughly constant
15   over the next 25 years, despite increases in fleet fuel economy [3]. As of April 2009, the Energy
16   Information Administration was still projecting annual VMT growth of 1.5% through 2030 [4].
17            In short, any pathway to reducing oil consumption and carbon emissions in the transport
18   sector is strewn with rocky obstacles. To give a sense of the scale of the challenge, for transport
19   to contribute a proportionate share of emission reductions in the U.S. to achieve an atmospheric
20   stabilization goal of 450 ppm CO2, light-duty vehicle fuel economy would have to rise to
21   136mpg, cellulosic ethanol would have to gain an 83% fuel market share, or vehicle travel would
22   have to fall by 53% by 2050 [5].
23            Recent events, however, have suggested that the path to passenger transport emission
24   reductions may be slightly less challenging than would have appeared several years ago.
25   Increases in fuel prices from 2003 as oil reached around $150 per barrel led to a noticeable
26   reduction in vehicle travel, far in excess of what recent estimates of short-run fuel price
27   elasticities [6] would suggest, as well as notable increases in the use of alternative modes. Even
28   in the U.S., public transport systems posted ridership gains – an increase of 2.1% from 2007 to
29   2008 – and consumer preferences appeared to shift modestly to urban, walkable environments
30   associated with less vehicle travel [7].
31            Basic travel demand theory would suggest that there exists some saturation point for
32   vehicle ownership and travel. Unless travel speeds increase, the fixed number of hours in a day
33   and the consistent average of 1.1 hours per day that people devote to travel [8] preclude ever-
34   rising travel activity. Aging of the population may also lead to changes in travel patterns. And
35   there is some limited evidence that income elasticities for fuel demand tend to decline as income
36   increases. Johansson and Schipper [9] found income elasticities of car use lower in countries
37   with higher car ownership. This stands to reason, as the number of available cars has exceeded
38   the number of licensed drivers in the U.S. already [10]. In short, with talk of “peak oil”, why
39   not “peak travel?”
40            This paper provides some qualitative evidence to support these ideas of saturation. It
41   finds that since 2003, motorized travel demand has leveled out or even declined in most of the
42   countries studied, and travel in private vehicles has declined. Car ownership has continued to
43   rise, but these cars are being driven less. If the trends toward reduced energy intensity of
44   passenger travel, primarily from more efficient vehicles, can hold or be reinforced, the road to
45   transport emission reductions may be slightly less challenging than originally thought.
Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                             4

 1            The paper is based on a cross-national analysis of trends in passenger transport in six
 2   industrialized countries – the United States, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Japan and
 3   Australia. These countries span a wide range of land-use patterns and transport systems, from the
 4   auto-oriented suburban landscape that dominates the U.S., to the transit-focused, high-density
 5   Japan. U.S. cities tend to have the highest passenger transport energy consumption, followed by
 6   Australia and Canada, Europe, and finally Asia [11]. More countries will be added to the dataset
 7   in later stages of this work, and select data from France are already included. The paper uses a
 8   similar dataset to earlier analyses from 1993 and 1999 [12, 13], allowing us to capture recent
 9   trends. Unfortunately, there are no reliable time series data on travel or fuel use by mode from
10   large developing countries such as Mexico, Brazil, China or India.
11            The next section provides an overview of the analysis methods and data sources. The
12   paper then presents a qualitative discussion of trends in activity, modal structure and modal
13   energy intensity across the six countries. The subsequent section provides a more formal
14   decomposition of the components of energy demand changes using Laspeyres indices. We
15   conclude with some observations on the implications for emissions projections and the potential
16   for CO2 reductions.

17   METHODS AND DATA

18   Data Sources
19   A wide variety of national-level data sources were compiled for this analysis. A typical problem
20   is that activity and energy data are published by different agencies, and do not necessarily agree.
21   Another is that the scope and procedure for data collection often changes over time. In general,
22   bottom-up data on activity and on-road fuel economy are presented here, calibrated to top-down
23   fuel consumption data. Interpolations are sometimes used for missing years. Importantly, the
24   analysis includes all transport fuels, not just gasoline. The inclusion of diesel for cars as well as
25   public transport makes a significant difference to the results in several countries.
26            The data cover passenger travel by car and household light truck, bus, rail and domestic
27   air. Household light trucks are significant in Australia, Canada, and the U.S. and identified by
28   surveys. SUVs in Japan, Sweden, and the U.K. that are household vehicles are counted as such
29   as well. The rail category includes local metro and streetcar systems. Motorcycles are excluded
30   as their share of travel is minimal. Water transport is excluded for consistency reasons and small
31   even in Japan. Our analysis does not include non-motorized travel, largely because of the poor
32   quality or non-existence of the data in several countries.
33            For the U.S., the primary sources are the Transportation Energy Data Book [10] and the
34   Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which compile data from public authorities and some private
35   sources for each mode. For Canada, we use the database published by the Office of Energy
36   Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada. For Australia, Apelbaum Consulting Group’s “Australian
37   Transport Facts” publications for various years are coupled with the Bureau of Transport and
38   Regional Economics’ “Australian Transport Statistics” series. For the U.K., “Transport Statistics
39   Great Britain” and “Energy Consumption in the United Kingdom” are the primary sources. For
40   Sweden, various publications from Banverket, Vägverket, Statens Insitut för
41   Kommunikationsanalys, Statistiska Centralbyrån and Statens Energimyndighet are used. For
42   Japan, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport publishes a number of authoritative
43   data books, as does the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry through the Energy Data and
Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                            5

 1   Modelling Center of the Japan Institute of Energy Economics. With the exception of electricity,
 2   we measure final energy at the point of combustion. The limited amounts of electricity used were
 3   converted to primary energy, i.e. accounting for generation and transmission losses, using data
 4   from the International Energy Agency. We have taken into account the important differences in
 5   the energy and CO2 content of gasoline, LPG and diesel, the main fuels used in the study
 6   countries.
 7           GDP, population and energy price data for all countries are from the Source OECD and
 8   IEA databases. Unless otherwise stated, prices and GDP are deflated to real 2000 currency and
 9   then converted to U.S. dollars at each country’s purchasing power parity exchange rate as
10   published by the OECD. This measure of GDP converted to constant U.S. dollars provides a
11   more consistent indicator of the cost in each country of a basket of goods or services than do
12   exchange rates, which are influenced by trade more than differences in what local consumers buy
13   or can afford.
14           For Sweden, Australia, the United States and Japan, our series runs through 2007. For the
15   United Kingdom and Canada, it runs through 2006. For most countries the series begins in 1970,
16   except for Australia (1971) and Canada (1984).

17   Analysis Approach
18   Some of the time series in this paper are plotted with GDP on the x-axis, rather than the
19   conventional approach of plotting against time. This effectively controls for the impact of
20   income on vehicle ownership and travel and for different rates of economic growth over time,
21   and thus highlights structural differences between countries. However, the path over time can
22   still be discerned in the charts. To facilitate comparisons over time, some data are also presented
23   as time series. Appendix 1 shows GDP per capita over time for each country, allowing the reader
24   to convert the plots against GDP per capita to plots against time.
25            A useful framework to understand the driving forces behind changes in passenger
26   transport fuel consumption and emissions is the ASIF decomposition [12, 14]. This expresses
27   total greenhouse gas emissions from passenger transport as a function of passenger travel
28   demand or activity; modal structure; modal energy intensities; and fuel carbon content.
29
30

31           Where A is total activity measured in passenger kilometers; S is a vector of modal shares
32   for each mode i; I is the energy intensity of each mode i; and F is a vector of the carbon content
33   of each fuel j used for each mode i. Energy intensity can be further decomposed into three
34   factors: technical efficiency; vehicle characteristics such as power and weight; and load factors.
35   The focus of this analysis is on energy use, not greenhouse gas emissions, and so we consider
36   only the first three terms and ignore fuel carbon content (which, with the exception of electricity,
37   tend to be stable across time and across countries).

38   TRAVEL TRENDS

39   Activity
40   The last three decades have shown rapid increases in total travel activity, or the number of
41   passenger kilometers traveled in motorized modes. Figure 1 shows how per capita travel by
Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                             6

 1   country has changed along with per capita GDP. As noted by many others, GDP growth has been
 2   the main driver of increased travel, partly as greater prosperity translates into rising car
 3   ownership [15].
 4           There are clear differences in the total amount of travel between the U.S.; a second
 5   grouping of Canada and Australia; a third grouping of Sweden and the U.K.; and Japan with the
 6   lowest amount of travel. Income is behind some of these cross-national differences evident in
 7   Figure 1, and the patterns are also to some extent a simple reflection of geography, with per
 8   capita travel tending to be lower in smaller and more crowded countries. However, they also
 9   reflect more structural differences in urban development patterns, transport infrastructure and
10   travel costs between North America, Europe and Japan [13, 16]. As well as the largest amount of
11   passenger travel, the U.S. also shows the highest rate of growth through the 1980s and 1990s, in
12   terms of growth both per year and per unit of GDP.
13           There are, however, signs of a leveling out or saturation of total passenger travel since the
14   early years of the 21st century. This leveling out has occurred at a level of GDP between $25,000
15   and $30,000 in most countries, and in the U.S. at a slightly higher income of about $37,000. To
16   some extent, this saturation is related to higher fuel prices, whose rise began in 2002, but this
17   leveling out predated the rapid rises in oil price from 2007. Importantly, the flattening of total per
18   capita travel over so many countries has never been experienced. If it is a truly permanent
19   change, then future projections of CO2 emissions and fuel demand should be scaled back.
20
21   FIGURE 1       TOTAL MOTORIZED TRAVEL ACTIVITY 1970-2006/07




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Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                            7

 1   Figure 2 plots total passenger travel in cars and household light trucks against GDP. It shows a
 2   similar picture to Figure 1, which is unsurprising as cars and light trucks account for the majority
 3   of travel. However, some countries actually posted declines in passenger car travel in the past
 4   few years, notably Canada, Australia and Japan. Similar trends (not shown in the chart) can be
 5   observed in France and Germany, with both countries lying close to the U.K. values [17].
 6   Perhaps surprisingly, Sweden continues a slow increase in passenger car travel.
 7           Figure 3 shows total car and household light truck use, expressed in vehicle rather than
 8   passenger kilometers. The trends are similar to those in Figure 2, indicating no major changes in
 9   vehicle occupancy rates. The exception is the U.S., where vehicle use has increased at a faster
10   rate than passenger travel as carpooling has declined.
11
12   FIGURE 2       TRAVEL ACTIVITY IN CARS AND LIGHT TRUCKS 1970-2006/07




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Millard-Ball & Schipper                                               8

1   FIGURE 3      DISTANCE DRIVEN IN CARS AND LIGHT TRUCKS 1970-2006/07




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Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                           9

 1   Signs of saturation are also evident in data on vehicle ownership (Figure 4). Again, there is a
 2   split between Australia and the U.S. with higher ownership and rates of growth, and Europe and
 3   Japan which have converged and leveled out at between about 450 and 500 vehicles per 1,000
 4   people. Potential explanations include parking constraints, taxes on vehicle ownership, an aging
 5   population and saturation of car ownership among those not living in the centers of thriving
 6   cities.
 7           Even the U.S. experienced an apparent decline in ownership rates in 2007 according to
 8   DOT’s Highway Statistics. Growth in car ownership has slowed in every country, with
 9   exceptions being a recent spurt in Australia and one starting in Japan in 1990, when new car
10   taxes were revised [18]. Interestingly, about one-third of the new car registrations today in Japan
11   are mini-cars under 660cc engine displacement [19]. Japan’s ownership has caught up to levels
12   in Europe, but because of the constraints on space, the gap has in part been filled by mini-cars.
13
14   FIGURE 4       VEHICLE OWNERSHIP 1970-2006/07




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Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                          10

 1            Figure 5 shows passenger travel by domestic air services. The volatility of travel demand
 2   is striking. The most recent downturn in demand corresponds to the aftermath of the terrorist
 3   attacks of September 2001. (The analysis does not extend to the recent declines in air travel due
 4   to high fuel prices and the economic downturn.) There are also twists in individual countries, for
 5   example related to industry restructuring in Canada and a long strike in Australia in 1990.
 6            There is also a clear divide between large countries with little inter-city passenger rail
 7   infrastructure, which have high rates and rapid growth in domestic air travel; and those that are
 8   more compact and have invested in high-speed rail as well as reliable regional service. The U.S.,
 9   and Australia, and to a lesser extent Canada, belong to the first group; the U.K., Sweden and
10   Japan to the second. To some extent, national boundaries make this an unfair comparison, as
11   low-cost intra-European international flights are not included in the figures (and their emissions
12   are not allocated to individual countries under the UN Framework Convention on Climate
13   Change). Including these flights would close the gap somewhat, but not completely.
14
15   FIGURE 5       PASSENGER TRAVEL ON DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES 1970-2006/07




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Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                          11


 1   Modal Structure
 2   The growth in passenger travel by private vehicle and air has not, in general, been at the expense
 3   of bus and rail. Figure 6 shows travel per capita by mode for three years – 1973, 1990 and
 4   2006/07. Rather than a major shift away from public transport, increased energy use and
 5   emissions have been caused by growth in total activity based on the car and domestic air. The
 6   mode share of bus and rail has remained relatively constant or declined only slightly in five of
 7   the six countries (Figure 7). However, since 2002 the share of these modes in Sweden and the
 8   UK, as well as France (not shown) has held steady or even risen slightly, and even moved up
 9   from a much lower level in the United States. The exception is Japan, where the share of public
10   transport declined precipitously until the year 2000. However, compared to the other five
11   countries, Japan still has the largest mode share and per capita level of travel by bus and rail.
12           To some extent, growth in car and air travel has eaten away at intercity and local rail and
13   bus load factors even if mode shares have remained steady. Conversely, switching back to these
14   modes from cars, if the shift is absorbed by existing runs, will add little energy or emissions
15   while saving the energy that would have been used for cars. If the shifts take passengers from air
16   without reversing or slowing the growth in flights in the long term, however, then there is no
17   significant energy or emissions saving.
18
19   FIGURE 6          PASSENGER TRAVEL PER CAPITA BY MODE




20
21   Note: For Canada, metro and other local rail services are included in the “bus” category.
Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                         12

 1   FIGURE 7       BUS AND RAIL MODE SHARE 1970-2006/07




 2
 3   Intensity
 4   The energy intensity of cars and light trucks has declined in all six countries, as well as France,
 5   since 1980 (Figure 8). The most noticeable decline was in the U.S. from the late 1970s – the
 6   period following the introduction of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. But
 7   after 1990, Japan’s intensities increased and those in the U.S. were stagnant, while intensities in
 8   the U.K. and other EU countries fell slowly from 1995 until the present [17]. Japan’s intensity
 9   started falling again by 2000 as the mini-cars began to have an impact on the fleet, and those in
10   the U.S. started to fall after 2003, when higher oil prices seemed to have led to improved fuel
11   economy of new cars (over the standard) and slightly tighter standards on new light trucks had an
12   impact as well [20].
13           Lower load factors, however, have meant that the change in energy intensity of car travel
14   and aggregate passenger travel has been less pronounced, particularly in Europe (Figure 9). Even
15   though individual modes, particularly cars, have become less energy intensive per vehicle
16   kilometer, the energy intensity of travel itself has shown less of a drop, partly because of
17   declining load factors. In Japan, the energy intensity of aggregate travel increased through the
18   mid-1990s, due to a shift to more energy intensive modes and to lower load factors.
19           In spite of the impact of CAFE standards, the U.S. has the most energy intensive
20   vehicles, followed by Australia, Canada and Japan. The inverse relationships between fuel price
21   and fuel intensities [21] or total fuel use for cars [22] still hold.
22           Note that differences in energy intensity across countries are not the same as one might
23   predict from test values of new cars [23]. Japan has more energy intensive vehicles than Sweden
24   or the U.K.; Schipper [17] notes that Japanese data sources imply that new car fuel economy test
Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                        13

 1   values in Japan must be multiplied by 1.33 to reflect approximate on-road values, indicating bad
 2   congestion, while for Europe the adjustment is closer to 1.12. Older sources for Sweden find an
 3   even smaller adjustment for cars there [13], probably because a smaller share of driving occurs in
 4   the three large cities than in corresponding urban areas in other countries.
 5            With long stage lengths, air travel in North America or Australia is much less energy
 6   intensive than in Europe, where even in France and Sweden “domestic flights” are mostly less
 7   than 500 km. In fact, the energy intensity of air travel in the U.S., with close to 80% of seats
 8   filled) is currently below that of car travel, with an average of 1.6 passengers per vehicle or
 9   roughly 30% of seats filled.
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11   FIGURE 8       ENERGY INTENSITY OF CARS AND LIGHT TRUCKS 1970-2006/07




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Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                           14

 1   FIGURE 9       ENERGY INTENSITY OF PASSENGER TRAVEL 1970-2006/07




 2
 3   DECOMPOSING TRANSPORT ENERGY USE
 4   Laspeyres indices provide a simple way to understand the driving forces behind trends in
 5   passenger transport energy use, through decomposing changes into activity, modal structure and
 6   modal energy intensity [12]. They show the hypothetical change in passenger transport energy
 7   use if only overall activity, modal structure or modal energy intensity had changed, holding the
 8   other two elements constant. The approach can be extended to include fuel mix, but even major
 9   shifts to diesel cars have had minimal impact on the CO2 content of fuel, because diesel has only
10   slightly greater emissions per unit of energy than gasoline. More sophisticated indices can give
11   slightly more accurate results but are much more cumbersome to calculate [24].
12            Table 1 shows the annual average changes over the 1973-2006 period and three
13   subperiods. The “Actual” row refers to the change in total passenger energy use, which increased
14   in all countries and time periods with the notable exception of Japan and the U.K. from 2000-
15   2006.
16            The “Activity” row indicates a hypothetical case in which modal structure and modal
17   energy intensities remain constant over the period, but total travel does change. It shows that
18   increased activity has been the largest contributor to rising passenger transport demand over the
19   period of analysis. The 1990s were a particular period of rising activity, but the rate of growth
20   has slowed since the turn of the century in all countries except the U.K.
21            The “Structure” row indicates a hypothetical case in which activity and modal energy
22   intensities remain constant, but in which the share of cars, bus, rail and air travel change. In five
23   of the six countries, changing mode shares has been minimal over all periods of analysis,
24   indicating that neither a shift away from public transport nor a shift to domestic air travel explain
Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                             15

 1   much of the change in energy use. The exception is Japan, which witnessed a major decline in
 2   public transport use through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, although in recent years the mode share
 3   of bus and rail has begun to rise again.
 4           The “Intensity” row indicates a hypothetical case in which activity and modal shares
 5   remain constant, but in which the energy intensities of different modes change. With a few
 6   exceptions – notably Japan and Sweden since the 1990s – the energy intensity of travel has fallen
 7   over time. However, it has not fallen enough to offset increases in total activity. Particular gains
 8   in energy intensity have been achieved in the U.S., most likely through the imposition of
 9   Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for cars and light-duty vehicles. The reasons for
10   increased energy intensity are more difficult to discern. In Japan, rising congestion may be a
11   factor as well as the boom in the sale of large cars following tax reforms of 1990 (noted above).
12
13   TABLE 1          LASPEYRES DECOMPOSITION OF PASSENGER TRANSPORT ENERGY USE
14
                                Australia   Canada     Japan      Sweden        U.K.        U.S.
      1973-2006 Actual            2.2%                  3.1%       1.4%        1.1%        1.1%
                Activity          2.6%                  1.9%       1.3%        1.7%        1.9%
                Structure         0.1%                  0.9%       0.1%        0.1%        0.0%
                Intensity        -0.4%                  0.2%       -0.1%       -0.8%       -0.9%
      1973-1990 Actual            2.7%                  4.3%       1.4%        2.2%        0.6%
                Activity          3.0%                  2.7%       1.8%        2.6%        1.7%
                Structure         0.0%                  1.2%       0.2%        0.2%        0.0%
                Intensity        -0.3%                  0.0%       -0.8%       -0.7%       -1.2%
      1990-2000 Actual            3.6%      1.1%        7.4%       1.6%        0.5%        3.7%
                Activity          4.3%      3.5%        3.1%       1.4%        1.1%        5.0%
                Structure         0.5%      0.1%        1.9%       -0.1%       0.0%        0.0%
                Intensity        -0.9%      -2.3%       1.2%       0.1%        -0.6%       -1.2%
      2000-2006 Actual            1.5%      1.0%       -1.1%       2.4%        -0.5%       1.1%
                Activity          2.3%      1.1%        0.0%       0.8%        1.3%        1.8%
                Structure         0.2%      0.1%       -0.3%       0.0%        0.0%        0.0%
                Intensity        -0.7%      -0.2%       0.2%       1.6%        -1.7%       -0.6%
15   Note: 1990 is base year.

16   CONCLUSIONS
17   Several conclusions emerge from this international comparison of travel trends. First, total
18   domestic travel has slowed its growth relative to GDP and even declined in per capita terms in
19   some countries. This represents a marked change after robust increases in the 1970s and earlier.
20   Most of the growth that has occurred was led by cars and domestic air travel. Second, the mode
21   shifts away from travel in cars have subsided. Thus major factors pushing up fuel and CO2
22   emissions appear less important, at least during the present decade, than before.
23           The energy intensity of car travel, the dominant factor in travel-related energy use and
24   CO2 emissions, has fallen in every country except Japan since 1990, and started falling in Japan
25   after 2000. In the U.S., the large drop in the intensity of car use ended in the 1990s, just as
26   various policies kicked off a new round of declines in Europe and Japan [17]. It is possible that
27   accelerated decline in the energy intensity of car travel, stagnation in total travel per capita, and
28   some shifts back to rail and bus modes, and at least somewhat less carbon per unit of energy
Millard-Ball & Schipper                                                                        16

 1   could might leave the absolute levels of emissions in 2020 or 2030 lower than today. Whether
 2   more ambitious targets can be met depends both on how much less carbon per passenger
 3   kilometer will be emitted. But it also depends on the total level of activity.
 4           We did not analyze fully the reasons why the levels of travel and automobile fuel
 5   economy differ so widely among the study countries. However, fuel prices certainly play a role
 6   in the differences in intensities and to some extent mode shares of ground travel. Given the wide
 7   range of travel at a given GDP, fuel prices, geography, urban structure and transport
 8   infrastructure must play some role. The demographic transition to a more elderly population, one
 9   consequence of very slow population growth in Japan and Europe, may also contribute. The fact
10   that car use has slowed or declined in all the countries (as well as several not shown) suggests
11   that, whatever the causes of differences in travel among industrialized countries, some kind of
12   peak or plateau in per capita travel has been reached. How broad that peak is, and whether we
13   will soon see a decline on the other side, is a question that cannot be answered yet. Further work
14   using each country’s most recent travel surveys would help answer many questions. However,
15   the assumption of continued, steady growth in travel demand, which is inherent in many
16   transport models and energy use projections, is one that planners and policy makers should treat
17   with extreme caution.

18   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
19   Thanks to many individuals who contributed data or helped with explanations of data definitions
20   and collection methodologies. They include John Apelbaum (Australia), students at the Chalmers
21   Institute of Technology (Sweden), Dominic Demers (Natural Resources Canada) and Alexandre
22   Dumas (Transport Canada) as well as numerous specialists at the UK Department for Transport.
23   Compilation of the cross-national time series has been a multi-decade endeavor; special thanks to
24   Koji Toyoshima of METI (Tokyo) who updated the Japan series. Adam Millard-Ball is
25   supported by a David and Lucille Packard Foundation Stanford Graduate Fellowship and a
26   William C. and Jeanne M. Landreth Fellowship. Lee Schipper acknowledges support of
27   EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport, through a grant to Global Metropolitan
28   Studies, U.C. Berkeley.

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1   APPENDIX                GDP PER CAPITA (2000 US$ PPP) TO YEAR CONVERSION
                                                                           United     United
       Year     Australia     Canada     France     Japan      Sweden     Kingdom     States
         1970     $16,270      $15,638    $13,330    $12,136    $16,622     $13,547    $18,391
         1971     $16,227      $15,808    $13,895    $12,581    $16,665     $13,748    $18,771
         1972     $16,397      $16,477    $14,412    $13,456    $16,996     $14,195    $19,555
         1973     $16,803      $17,410    $15,235    $14,205    $17,638     $15,173    $20,485
         1974     $16,736      $17,803    $15,813    $13,840    $18,149     $14,963    $20,194
         1975     $17,020      $17,865    $15,587    $14,094    $18,541     $14,872    $19,961
         1976     $17,433      $18,548    $16,210    $14,491    $18,669     $15,268    $20,821
         1977     $17,378      $18,966    $16,710    $14,980    $18,307     $15,641    $21,565
         1978     $17,919      $19,520    $17,296    $15,627    $18,573     $16,151    $22,526
         1979     $18,264      $20,063    $17,830    $16,348    $19,242     $16,567    $22,982
         1980     $18,621      $20,235    $18,038    $16,676    $19,526     $16,195    $22,666
         1981     $18,897      $20,687    $18,102    $17,041    $19,465     $15,952    $23,006
         1982     $18,165      $19,858    $18,432    $17,391    $19,695     $16,276    $22,346
         1983     $18,775      $20,197    $18,553    $17,548    $20,055     $16,842    $23,146
         1984     $19,531      $21,170    $18,738    $17,979    $20,900     $17,245    $24,593
         1985     $20,112      $21,980    $18,964    $18,775    $21,330     $17,809    $25,381
         1986     $20,294      $22,289    $19,331    $19,227    $21,872     $18,474    $26,025
         1987     $21,008      $22,932    $19,706    $19,861    $22,540     $19,280    $26,664
         1988     $21,404      $23,761    $20,494    $21,117    $23,023     $20,204    $27,514
         1989     $21,920      $23,949    $21,222    $22,145    $23,496     $20,588    $28,220
         1990     $21,483      $23,635    $21,666    $23,220    $23,555     $20,689    $28,430
         1991     $21,233      $22,865    $21,779    $23,904    $23,144     $20,334    $28,007
         1992     $21,766      $22,792    $21,969    $24,047    $22,736     $20,326    $28,556
         1993     $22,431      $23,069    $21,676    $24,028    $22,152     $20,740    $28,941
         1994     $23,187      $23,913    $22,076    $24,225    $22,863     $21,580    $29,741
         1995     $23,817      $24,330    $22,464    $24,642    $23,648     $22,153    $30,128
         1996     $24,451      $24,466    $22,635    $25,261    $23,955     $22,715    $30,881
         1997     $25,287      $25,248    $23,062    $25,597    $24,531     $23,360    $31,886
         1998     $26,305      $26,064    $23,784    $25,004    $25,452     $24,077    $32,833
         1999     $27,029      $27,283    $24,446    $24,923    $26,600     $24,721    $33,904
         2000     $27,220      $28,444    $25,233    $25,593    $27,727     $25,573    $34,759
         2001     $27,874      $28,641    $25,520    $25,578    $27,944     $26,079    $34,660
         2002     $28,425      $29,149    $25,601    $25,586    $28,525     $26,520    $34,863
         2003     $29,217      $29,413    $25,701    $25,892    $28,964     $27,149    $35,388
         2004     $29,655      $30,019    $26,166    $26,594    $30,038     $27,902    $36,415
         2005     $30,124      $30,642    $26,456    $27,126    $30,905     $28,234    $37,225
         2006     $30,467      $31,175    $26,821    $27,695    $31,988     $28,887    $37,934
         2007     $31,352      $31,633    $27,983    $28,213    $32,820     $29,550    $38,009
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  • 1. ARE WE REACHING A PLATEAU OR “PEAK” TRAVEL? TRENDS IN PASSENGER TRANSPORT IN SIX INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES Paper submitted to 2010 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Adam Millard-Ball1 and Lee Schipper2 (1) Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) Stanford University Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building – 4210 473 Via Ortega Stanford, CA, 94305 Tel: (415) 225-2895 Fax: (650) 725-4139 E-mail: adammb@stanford.edu (2) Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Stanford University Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building 473 Via Ortega Stanford, CA, 94305 and Global Metropolitan Studies, U.C. Berkeley E-mail: mrmeter@stanford.edu Revised November 2009 4,746 words plus 11 figures and tables
  • 2. Millard-Ball & Schipper 2 ABSTRACT Projections of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for industrialized countries typically show continued growth in vehicle ownership, vehicle use and overall travel demand. This represents a continuation of trends from the 1970s through the early 2000s. This paper presents a descriptive analysis of cross-national passenger transport trends in six industrialized countries, providing evidence to suggest that these trends may have halted. Through decomposing passenger transport energy use into activity, mode structure and energy intensity, we show that increases in total activity (passenger travel) have been the driving force behind increased energy use, offset somewhat by declining energy intensity. We show that total activity growth has halted relative to GDP in recent years in the six countries examined. If these trends continue, it is possible that accelerated decline in the energy intensity of car travel; stagnation in total travel per capita; some shifts back to rail and bus modes; and at least somewhat less carbon per unit of energy could leave the absolute levels of emissions in 2020 or 2030 lower than today.
  • 3. 1 INTRODUCTION 2 The transport sector’s trends of more people; owning more cars; owning larger and more 3 powerful cars; and driving more have sometimes seemed inexorable. With the exception of the 4 1970s oil price shock and the recent fuel price hike, most industrialized countries have continued 5 on a steady path of motorization. Developing countries, meanwhile, seem poised to follow these 6 trends [1]. The International Energy Agency projects an average annual increase in global 7 transport energy demand of 1.5% between 2006 and 2030, although this does represent a slowing 8 from 2.3% annual growth over the 1980-2006 period [2]. 9 Efforts to reduce the carbon intensity of fuels have so far been largely unsuccessful, even 10 if plug-in hybrids and second-generation biofuels have long-term promise. Past improvements in 11 vehicle efficiency, meanwhile, have often been negated by increases in power and weight, 12 leaving fuel economy constant. Future increases in fuel economy – for example through more 13 stringent regulation – may be counteracted by increased vehicle travel. In the U.S., projected 14 annual increases in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) will leave carbon emissions roughly constant 15 over the next 25 years, despite increases in fleet fuel economy [3]. As of April 2009, the Energy 16 Information Administration was still projecting annual VMT growth of 1.5% through 2030 [4]. 17 In short, any pathway to reducing oil consumption and carbon emissions in the transport 18 sector is strewn with rocky obstacles. To give a sense of the scale of the challenge, for transport 19 to contribute a proportionate share of emission reductions in the U.S. to achieve an atmospheric 20 stabilization goal of 450 ppm CO2, light-duty vehicle fuel economy would have to rise to 21 136mpg, cellulosic ethanol would have to gain an 83% fuel market share, or vehicle travel would 22 have to fall by 53% by 2050 [5]. 23 Recent events, however, have suggested that the path to passenger transport emission 24 reductions may be slightly less challenging than would have appeared several years ago. 25 Increases in fuel prices from 2003 as oil reached around $150 per barrel led to a noticeable 26 reduction in vehicle travel, far in excess of what recent estimates of short-run fuel price 27 elasticities [6] would suggest, as well as notable increases in the use of alternative modes. Even 28 in the U.S., public transport systems posted ridership gains – an increase of 2.1% from 2007 to 29 2008 – and consumer preferences appeared to shift modestly to urban, walkable environments 30 associated with less vehicle travel [7]. 31 Basic travel demand theory would suggest that there exists some saturation point for 32 vehicle ownership and travel. Unless travel speeds increase, the fixed number of hours in a day 33 and the consistent average of 1.1 hours per day that people devote to travel [8] preclude ever- 34 rising travel activity. Aging of the population may also lead to changes in travel patterns. And 35 there is some limited evidence that income elasticities for fuel demand tend to decline as income 36 increases. Johansson and Schipper [9] found income elasticities of car use lower in countries 37 with higher car ownership. This stands to reason, as the number of available cars has exceeded 38 the number of licensed drivers in the U.S. already [10]. In short, with talk of “peak oil”, why 39 not “peak travel?” 40 This paper provides some qualitative evidence to support these ideas of saturation. It 41 finds that since 2003, motorized travel demand has leveled out or even declined in most of the 42 countries studied, and travel in private vehicles has declined. Car ownership has continued to 43 rise, but these cars are being driven less. If the trends toward reduced energy intensity of 44 passenger travel, primarily from more efficient vehicles, can hold or be reinforced, the road to 45 transport emission reductions may be slightly less challenging than originally thought.
  • 4. Millard-Ball & Schipper 4 1 The paper is based on a cross-national analysis of trends in passenger transport in six 2 industrialized countries – the United States, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Japan and 3 Australia. These countries span a wide range of land-use patterns and transport systems, from the 4 auto-oriented suburban landscape that dominates the U.S., to the transit-focused, high-density 5 Japan. U.S. cities tend to have the highest passenger transport energy consumption, followed by 6 Australia and Canada, Europe, and finally Asia [11]. More countries will be added to the dataset 7 in later stages of this work, and select data from France are already included. The paper uses a 8 similar dataset to earlier analyses from 1993 and 1999 [12, 13], allowing us to capture recent 9 trends. Unfortunately, there are no reliable time series data on travel or fuel use by mode from 10 large developing countries such as Mexico, Brazil, China or India. 11 The next section provides an overview of the analysis methods and data sources. The 12 paper then presents a qualitative discussion of trends in activity, modal structure and modal 13 energy intensity across the six countries. The subsequent section provides a more formal 14 decomposition of the components of energy demand changes using Laspeyres indices. We 15 conclude with some observations on the implications for emissions projections and the potential 16 for CO2 reductions. 17 METHODS AND DATA 18 Data Sources 19 A wide variety of national-level data sources were compiled for this analysis. A typical problem 20 is that activity and energy data are published by different agencies, and do not necessarily agree. 21 Another is that the scope and procedure for data collection often changes over time. In general, 22 bottom-up data on activity and on-road fuel economy are presented here, calibrated to top-down 23 fuel consumption data. Interpolations are sometimes used for missing years. Importantly, the 24 analysis includes all transport fuels, not just gasoline. The inclusion of diesel for cars as well as 25 public transport makes a significant difference to the results in several countries. 26 The data cover passenger travel by car and household light truck, bus, rail and domestic 27 air. Household light trucks are significant in Australia, Canada, and the U.S. and identified by 28 surveys. SUVs in Japan, Sweden, and the U.K. that are household vehicles are counted as such 29 as well. The rail category includes local metro and streetcar systems. Motorcycles are excluded 30 as their share of travel is minimal. Water transport is excluded for consistency reasons and small 31 even in Japan. Our analysis does not include non-motorized travel, largely because of the poor 32 quality or non-existence of the data in several countries. 33 For the U.S., the primary sources are the Transportation Energy Data Book [10] and the 34 Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which compile data from public authorities and some private 35 sources for each mode. For Canada, we use the database published by the Office of Energy 36 Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada. For Australia, Apelbaum Consulting Group’s “Australian 37 Transport Facts” publications for various years are coupled with the Bureau of Transport and 38 Regional Economics’ “Australian Transport Statistics” series. For the U.K., “Transport Statistics 39 Great Britain” and “Energy Consumption in the United Kingdom” are the primary sources. For 40 Sweden, various publications from Banverket, Vägverket, Statens Insitut för 41 Kommunikationsanalys, Statistiska Centralbyrån and Statens Energimyndighet are used. For 42 Japan, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport publishes a number of authoritative 43 data books, as does the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry through the Energy Data and
  • 5. Millard-Ball & Schipper 5 1 Modelling Center of the Japan Institute of Energy Economics. With the exception of electricity, 2 we measure final energy at the point of combustion. The limited amounts of electricity used were 3 converted to primary energy, i.e. accounting for generation and transmission losses, using data 4 from the International Energy Agency. We have taken into account the important differences in 5 the energy and CO2 content of gasoline, LPG and diesel, the main fuels used in the study 6 countries. 7 GDP, population and energy price data for all countries are from the Source OECD and 8 IEA databases. Unless otherwise stated, prices and GDP are deflated to real 2000 currency and 9 then converted to U.S. dollars at each country’s purchasing power parity exchange rate as 10 published by the OECD. This measure of GDP converted to constant U.S. dollars provides a 11 more consistent indicator of the cost in each country of a basket of goods or services than do 12 exchange rates, which are influenced by trade more than differences in what local consumers buy 13 or can afford. 14 For Sweden, Australia, the United States and Japan, our series runs through 2007. For the 15 United Kingdom and Canada, it runs through 2006. For most countries the series begins in 1970, 16 except for Australia (1971) and Canada (1984). 17 Analysis Approach 18 Some of the time series in this paper are plotted with GDP on the x-axis, rather than the 19 conventional approach of plotting against time. This effectively controls for the impact of 20 income on vehicle ownership and travel and for different rates of economic growth over time, 21 and thus highlights structural differences between countries. However, the path over time can 22 still be discerned in the charts. To facilitate comparisons over time, some data are also presented 23 as time series. Appendix 1 shows GDP per capita over time for each country, allowing the reader 24 to convert the plots against GDP per capita to plots against time. 25 A useful framework to understand the driving forces behind changes in passenger 26 transport fuel consumption and emissions is the ASIF decomposition [12, 14]. This expresses 27 total greenhouse gas emissions from passenger transport as a function of passenger travel 28 demand or activity; modal structure; modal energy intensities; and fuel carbon content. 29 30 31 Where A is total activity measured in passenger kilometers; S is a vector of modal shares 32 for each mode i; I is the energy intensity of each mode i; and F is a vector of the carbon content 33 of each fuel j used for each mode i. Energy intensity can be further decomposed into three 34 factors: technical efficiency; vehicle characteristics such as power and weight; and load factors. 35 The focus of this analysis is on energy use, not greenhouse gas emissions, and so we consider 36 only the first three terms and ignore fuel carbon content (which, with the exception of electricity, 37 tend to be stable across time and across countries). 38 TRAVEL TRENDS 39 Activity 40 The last three decades have shown rapid increases in total travel activity, or the number of 41 passenger kilometers traveled in motorized modes. Figure 1 shows how per capita travel by
  • 6. Millard-Ball & Schipper 6 1 country has changed along with per capita GDP. As noted by many others, GDP growth has been 2 the main driver of increased travel, partly as greater prosperity translates into rising car 3 ownership [15]. 4 There are clear differences in the total amount of travel between the U.S.; a second 5 grouping of Canada and Australia; a third grouping of Sweden and the U.K.; and Japan with the 6 lowest amount of travel. Income is behind some of these cross-national differences evident in 7 Figure 1, and the patterns are also to some extent a simple reflection of geography, with per 8 capita travel tending to be lower in smaller and more crowded countries. However, they also 9 reflect more structural differences in urban development patterns, transport infrastructure and 10 travel costs between North America, Europe and Japan [13, 16]. As well as the largest amount of 11 passenger travel, the U.S. also shows the highest rate of growth through the 1980s and 1990s, in 12 terms of growth both per year and per unit of GDP. 13 There are, however, signs of a leveling out or saturation of total passenger travel since the 14 early years of the 21st century. This leveling out has occurred at a level of GDP between $25,000 15 and $30,000 in most countries, and in the U.S. at a slightly higher income of about $37,000. To 16 some extent, this saturation is related to higher fuel prices, whose rise began in 2002, but this 17 leveling out predated the rapid rises in oil price from 2007. Importantly, the flattening of total per 18 capita travel over so many countries has never been experienced. If it is a truly permanent 19 change, then future projections of CO2 emissions and fuel demand should be scaled back. 20 21 FIGURE 1 TOTAL MOTORIZED TRAVEL ACTIVITY 1970-2006/07 22 23 24 25
  • 7. Millard-Ball & Schipper 7 1 Figure 2 plots total passenger travel in cars and household light trucks against GDP. It shows a 2 similar picture to Figure 1, which is unsurprising as cars and light trucks account for the majority 3 of travel. However, some countries actually posted declines in passenger car travel in the past 4 few years, notably Canada, Australia and Japan. Similar trends (not shown in the chart) can be 5 observed in France and Germany, with both countries lying close to the U.K. values [17]. 6 Perhaps surprisingly, Sweden continues a slow increase in passenger car travel. 7 Figure 3 shows total car and household light truck use, expressed in vehicle rather than 8 passenger kilometers. The trends are similar to those in Figure 2, indicating no major changes in 9 vehicle occupancy rates. The exception is the U.S., where vehicle use has increased at a faster 10 rate than passenger travel as carpooling has declined. 11 12 FIGURE 2 TRAVEL ACTIVITY IN CARS AND LIGHT TRUCKS 1970-2006/07 13
  • 8. Millard-Ball & Schipper 8 1 FIGURE 3 DISTANCE DRIVEN IN CARS AND LIGHT TRUCKS 1970-2006/07 2 3
  • 9. Millard-Ball & Schipper 9 1 Signs of saturation are also evident in data on vehicle ownership (Figure 4). Again, there is a 2 split between Australia and the U.S. with higher ownership and rates of growth, and Europe and 3 Japan which have converged and leveled out at between about 450 and 500 vehicles per 1,000 4 people. Potential explanations include parking constraints, taxes on vehicle ownership, an aging 5 population and saturation of car ownership among those not living in the centers of thriving 6 cities. 7 Even the U.S. experienced an apparent decline in ownership rates in 2007 according to 8 DOT’s Highway Statistics. Growth in car ownership has slowed in every country, with 9 exceptions being a recent spurt in Australia and one starting in Japan in 1990, when new car 10 taxes were revised [18]. Interestingly, about one-third of the new car registrations today in Japan 11 are mini-cars under 660cc engine displacement [19]. Japan’s ownership has caught up to levels 12 in Europe, but because of the constraints on space, the gap has in part been filled by mini-cars. 13 14 FIGURE 4 VEHICLE OWNERSHIP 1970-2006/07 15 16
  • 10. Millard-Ball & Schipper 10 1 Figure 5 shows passenger travel by domestic air services. The volatility of travel demand 2 is striking. The most recent downturn in demand corresponds to the aftermath of the terrorist 3 attacks of September 2001. (The analysis does not extend to the recent declines in air travel due 4 to high fuel prices and the economic downturn.) There are also twists in individual countries, for 5 example related to industry restructuring in Canada and a long strike in Australia in 1990. 6 There is also a clear divide between large countries with little inter-city passenger rail 7 infrastructure, which have high rates and rapid growth in domestic air travel; and those that are 8 more compact and have invested in high-speed rail as well as reliable regional service. The U.S., 9 and Australia, and to a lesser extent Canada, belong to the first group; the U.K., Sweden and 10 Japan to the second. To some extent, national boundaries make this an unfair comparison, as 11 low-cost intra-European international flights are not included in the figures (and their emissions 12 are not allocated to individual countries under the UN Framework Convention on Climate 13 Change). Including these flights would close the gap somewhat, but not completely. 14 15 FIGURE 5 PASSENGER TRAVEL ON DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES 1970-2006/07 16 17
  • 11. Millard-Ball & Schipper 11 1 Modal Structure 2 The growth in passenger travel by private vehicle and air has not, in general, been at the expense 3 of bus and rail. Figure 6 shows travel per capita by mode for three years – 1973, 1990 and 4 2006/07. Rather than a major shift away from public transport, increased energy use and 5 emissions have been caused by growth in total activity based on the car and domestic air. The 6 mode share of bus and rail has remained relatively constant or declined only slightly in five of 7 the six countries (Figure 7). However, since 2002 the share of these modes in Sweden and the 8 UK, as well as France (not shown) has held steady or even risen slightly, and even moved up 9 from a much lower level in the United States. The exception is Japan, where the share of public 10 transport declined precipitously until the year 2000. However, compared to the other five 11 countries, Japan still has the largest mode share and per capita level of travel by bus and rail. 12 To some extent, growth in car and air travel has eaten away at intercity and local rail and 13 bus load factors even if mode shares have remained steady. Conversely, switching back to these 14 modes from cars, if the shift is absorbed by existing runs, will add little energy or emissions 15 while saving the energy that would have been used for cars. If the shifts take passengers from air 16 without reversing or slowing the growth in flights in the long term, however, then there is no 17 significant energy or emissions saving. 18 19 FIGURE 6 PASSENGER TRAVEL PER CAPITA BY MODE 20 21 Note: For Canada, metro and other local rail services are included in the “bus” category.
  • 12. Millard-Ball & Schipper 12 1 FIGURE 7 BUS AND RAIL MODE SHARE 1970-2006/07 2 3 Intensity 4 The energy intensity of cars and light trucks has declined in all six countries, as well as France, 5 since 1980 (Figure 8). The most noticeable decline was in the U.S. from the late 1970s – the 6 period following the introduction of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. But 7 after 1990, Japan’s intensities increased and those in the U.S. were stagnant, while intensities in 8 the U.K. and other EU countries fell slowly from 1995 until the present [17]. Japan’s intensity 9 started falling again by 2000 as the mini-cars began to have an impact on the fleet, and those in 10 the U.S. started to fall after 2003, when higher oil prices seemed to have led to improved fuel 11 economy of new cars (over the standard) and slightly tighter standards on new light trucks had an 12 impact as well [20]. 13 Lower load factors, however, have meant that the change in energy intensity of car travel 14 and aggregate passenger travel has been less pronounced, particularly in Europe (Figure 9). Even 15 though individual modes, particularly cars, have become less energy intensive per vehicle 16 kilometer, the energy intensity of travel itself has shown less of a drop, partly because of 17 declining load factors. In Japan, the energy intensity of aggregate travel increased through the 18 mid-1990s, due to a shift to more energy intensive modes and to lower load factors. 19 In spite of the impact of CAFE standards, the U.S. has the most energy intensive 20 vehicles, followed by Australia, Canada and Japan. The inverse relationships between fuel price 21 and fuel intensities [21] or total fuel use for cars [22] still hold. 22 Note that differences in energy intensity across countries are not the same as one might 23 predict from test values of new cars [23]. Japan has more energy intensive vehicles than Sweden 24 or the U.K.; Schipper [17] notes that Japanese data sources imply that new car fuel economy test
  • 13. Millard-Ball & Schipper 13 1 values in Japan must be multiplied by 1.33 to reflect approximate on-road values, indicating bad 2 congestion, while for Europe the adjustment is closer to 1.12. Older sources for Sweden find an 3 even smaller adjustment for cars there [13], probably because a smaller share of driving occurs in 4 the three large cities than in corresponding urban areas in other countries. 5 With long stage lengths, air travel in North America or Australia is much less energy 6 intensive than in Europe, where even in France and Sweden “domestic flights” are mostly less 7 than 500 km. In fact, the energy intensity of air travel in the U.S., with close to 80% of seats 8 filled) is currently below that of car travel, with an average of 1.6 passengers per vehicle or 9 roughly 30% of seats filled. 10 11 FIGURE 8 ENERGY INTENSITY OF CARS AND LIGHT TRUCKS 1970-2006/07 12
  • 14. Millard-Ball & Schipper 14 1 FIGURE 9 ENERGY INTENSITY OF PASSENGER TRAVEL 1970-2006/07 2 3 DECOMPOSING TRANSPORT ENERGY USE 4 Laspeyres indices provide a simple way to understand the driving forces behind trends in 5 passenger transport energy use, through decomposing changes into activity, modal structure and 6 modal energy intensity [12]. They show the hypothetical change in passenger transport energy 7 use if only overall activity, modal structure or modal energy intensity had changed, holding the 8 other two elements constant. The approach can be extended to include fuel mix, but even major 9 shifts to diesel cars have had minimal impact on the CO2 content of fuel, because diesel has only 10 slightly greater emissions per unit of energy than gasoline. More sophisticated indices can give 11 slightly more accurate results but are much more cumbersome to calculate [24]. 12 Table 1 shows the annual average changes over the 1973-2006 period and three 13 subperiods. The “Actual” row refers to the change in total passenger energy use, which increased 14 in all countries and time periods with the notable exception of Japan and the U.K. from 2000- 15 2006. 16 The “Activity” row indicates a hypothetical case in which modal structure and modal 17 energy intensities remain constant over the period, but total travel does change. It shows that 18 increased activity has been the largest contributor to rising passenger transport demand over the 19 period of analysis. The 1990s were a particular period of rising activity, but the rate of growth 20 has slowed since the turn of the century in all countries except the U.K. 21 The “Structure” row indicates a hypothetical case in which activity and modal energy 22 intensities remain constant, but in which the share of cars, bus, rail and air travel change. In five 23 of the six countries, changing mode shares has been minimal over all periods of analysis, 24 indicating that neither a shift away from public transport nor a shift to domestic air travel explain
  • 15. Millard-Ball & Schipper 15 1 much of the change in energy use. The exception is Japan, which witnessed a major decline in 2 public transport use through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, although in recent years the mode share 3 of bus and rail has begun to rise again. 4 The “Intensity” row indicates a hypothetical case in which activity and modal shares 5 remain constant, but in which the energy intensities of different modes change. With a few 6 exceptions – notably Japan and Sweden since the 1990s – the energy intensity of travel has fallen 7 over time. However, it has not fallen enough to offset increases in total activity. Particular gains 8 in energy intensity have been achieved in the U.S., most likely through the imposition of 9 Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for cars and light-duty vehicles. The reasons for 10 increased energy intensity are more difficult to discern. In Japan, rising congestion may be a 11 factor as well as the boom in the sale of large cars following tax reforms of 1990 (noted above). 12 13 TABLE 1 LASPEYRES DECOMPOSITION OF PASSENGER TRANSPORT ENERGY USE 14 Australia Canada Japan Sweden U.K. U.S. 1973-2006 Actual 2.2% 3.1% 1.4% 1.1% 1.1% Activity 2.6% 1.9% 1.3% 1.7% 1.9% Structure 0.1% 0.9% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% Intensity -0.4% 0.2% -0.1% -0.8% -0.9% 1973-1990 Actual 2.7% 4.3% 1.4% 2.2% 0.6% Activity 3.0% 2.7% 1.8% 2.6% 1.7% Structure 0.0% 1.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% Intensity -0.3% 0.0% -0.8% -0.7% -1.2% 1990-2000 Actual 3.6% 1.1% 7.4% 1.6% 0.5% 3.7% Activity 4.3% 3.5% 3.1% 1.4% 1.1% 5.0% Structure 0.5% 0.1% 1.9% -0.1% 0.0% 0.0% Intensity -0.9% -2.3% 1.2% 0.1% -0.6% -1.2% 2000-2006 Actual 1.5% 1.0% -1.1% 2.4% -0.5% 1.1% Activity 2.3% 1.1% 0.0% 0.8% 1.3% 1.8% Structure 0.2% 0.1% -0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Intensity -0.7% -0.2% 0.2% 1.6% -1.7% -0.6% 15 Note: 1990 is base year. 16 CONCLUSIONS 17 Several conclusions emerge from this international comparison of travel trends. First, total 18 domestic travel has slowed its growth relative to GDP and even declined in per capita terms in 19 some countries. This represents a marked change after robust increases in the 1970s and earlier. 20 Most of the growth that has occurred was led by cars and domestic air travel. Second, the mode 21 shifts away from travel in cars have subsided. Thus major factors pushing up fuel and CO2 22 emissions appear less important, at least during the present decade, than before. 23 The energy intensity of car travel, the dominant factor in travel-related energy use and 24 CO2 emissions, has fallen in every country except Japan since 1990, and started falling in Japan 25 after 2000. In the U.S., the large drop in the intensity of car use ended in the 1990s, just as 26 various policies kicked off a new round of declines in Europe and Japan [17]. It is possible that 27 accelerated decline in the energy intensity of car travel, stagnation in total travel per capita, and 28 some shifts back to rail and bus modes, and at least somewhat less carbon per unit of energy
  • 16. Millard-Ball & Schipper 16 1 could might leave the absolute levels of emissions in 2020 or 2030 lower than today. Whether 2 more ambitious targets can be met depends both on how much less carbon per passenger 3 kilometer will be emitted. But it also depends on the total level of activity. 4 We did not analyze fully the reasons why the levels of travel and automobile fuel 5 economy differ so widely among the study countries. However, fuel prices certainly play a role 6 in the differences in intensities and to some extent mode shares of ground travel. Given the wide 7 range of travel at a given GDP, fuel prices, geography, urban structure and transport 8 infrastructure must play some role. The demographic transition to a more elderly population, one 9 consequence of very slow population growth in Japan and Europe, may also contribute. The fact 10 that car use has slowed or declined in all the countries (as well as several not shown) suggests 11 that, whatever the causes of differences in travel among industrialized countries, some kind of 12 peak or plateau in per capita travel has been reached. How broad that peak is, and whether we 13 will soon see a decline on the other side, is a question that cannot be answered yet. Further work 14 using each country’s most recent travel surveys would help answer many questions. However, 15 the assumption of continued, steady growth in travel demand, which is inherent in many 16 transport models and energy use projections, is one that planners and policy makers should treat 17 with extreme caution. 18 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 19 Thanks to many individuals who contributed data or helped with explanations of data definitions 20 and collection methodologies. They include John Apelbaum (Australia), students at the Chalmers 21 Institute of Technology (Sweden), Dominic Demers (Natural Resources Canada) and Alexandre 22 Dumas (Transport Canada) as well as numerous specialists at the UK Department for Transport. 23 Compilation of the cross-national time series has been a multi-decade endeavor; special thanks to 24 Koji Toyoshima of METI (Tokyo) who updated the Japan series. Adam Millard-Ball is 25 supported by a David and Lucille Packard Foundation Stanford Graduate Fellowship and a 26 William C. and Jeanne M. Landreth Fellowship. Lee Schipper acknowledges support of 27 EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport, through a grant to Global Metropolitan 28 Studies, U.C. Berkeley. 29 REFERENCES 30 1. Dargay, J., D. Gately, and M. Sommer, Vehicle Ownership and Income Growth, 31 Worldwide: 1960-2030. Energy Journal, 2007. 28(4): p. 163-190. 32 2. International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook. 2008, Paris: OECD/IEA. 33 3. Ewing, R., et al., Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate 34 Change. 2008, Urban Land Institute: Urban Land Institute. 35 4. Energy Information Administration, An Updated Annual Energy Outlook 2009 Reference 36 Case Reflecting Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Recent Changes 37 in the Economic Outlook 2009, Energy Information Administration: Washington, DC. 38 5. Grimes-Casey, H., G. Keoleian, and B. Willcox, Carbon Emission Targets for Driving 39 Sustainable Mobility with US Light-Duty Vehicles. Environmental Science & Technology, 2009. 40 43: p. 585-590. 41 6. Hughes, J.E., C.R. Knittel, and D. Sperling, Evidence of a Shift in the Short-Run Price 42 Elasticity of Gasoline Demand. 2006, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, NBER 43 Working Papers: 12530.
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  • 18. Millard-Ball & Schipper 18 1 APPENDIX GDP PER CAPITA (2000 US$ PPP) TO YEAR CONVERSION United United Year Australia Canada France Japan Sweden Kingdom States 1970 $16,270 $15,638 $13,330 $12,136 $16,622 $13,547 $18,391 1971 $16,227 $15,808 $13,895 $12,581 $16,665 $13,748 $18,771 1972 $16,397 $16,477 $14,412 $13,456 $16,996 $14,195 $19,555 1973 $16,803 $17,410 $15,235 $14,205 $17,638 $15,173 $20,485 1974 $16,736 $17,803 $15,813 $13,840 $18,149 $14,963 $20,194 1975 $17,020 $17,865 $15,587 $14,094 $18,541 $14,872 $19,961 1976 $17,433 $18,548 $16,210 $14,491 $18,669 $15,268 $20,821 1977 $17,378 $18,966 $16,710 $14,980 $18,307 $15,641 $21,565 1978 $17,919 $19,520 $17,296 $15,627 $18,573 $16,151 $22,526 1979 $18,264 $20,063 $17,830 $16,348 $19,242 $16,567 $22,982 1980 $18,621 $20,235 $18,038 $16,676 $19,526 $16,195 $22,666 1981 $18,897 $20,687 $18,102 $17,041 $19,465 $15,952 $23,006 1982 $18,165 $19,858 $18,432 $17,391 $19,695 $16,276 $22,346 1983 $18,775 $20,197 $18,553 $17,548 $20,055 $16,842 $23,146 1984 $19,531 $21,170 $18,738 $17,979 $20,900 $17,245 $24,593 1985 $20,112 $21,980 $18,964 $18,775 $21,330 $17,809 $25,381 1986 $20,294 $22,289 $19,331 $19,227 $21,872 $18,474 $26,025 1987 $21,008 $22,932 $19,706 $19,861 $22,540 $19,280 $26,664 1988 $21,404 $23,761 $20,494 $21,117 $23,023 $20,204 $27,514 1989 $21,920 $23,949 $21,222 $22,145 $23,496 $20,588 $28,220 1990 $21,483 $23,635 $21,666 $23,220 $23,555 $20,689 $28,430 1991 $21,233 $22,865 $21,779 $23,904 $23,144 $20,334 $28,007 1992 $21,766 $22,792 $21,969 $24,047 $22,736 $20,326 $28,556 1993 $22,431 $23,069 $21,676 $24,028 $22,152 $20,740 $28,941 1994 $23,187 $23,913 $22,076 $24,225 $22,863 $21,580 $29,741 1995 $23,817 $24,330 $22,464 $24,642 $23,648 $22,153 $30,128 1996 $24,451 $24,466 $22,635 $25,261 $23,955 $22,715 $30,881 1997 $25,287 $25,248 $23,062 $25,597 $24,531 $23,360 $31,886 1998 $26,305 $26,064 $23,784 $25,004 $25,452 $24,077 $32,833 1999 $27,029 $27,283 $24,446 $24,923 $26,600 $24,721 $33,904 2000 $27,220 $28,444 $25,233 $25,593 $27,727 $25,573 $34,759 2001 $27,874 $28,641 $25,520 $25,578 $27,944 $26,079 $34,660 2002 $28,425 $29,149 $25,601 $25,586 $28,525 $26,520 $34,863 2003 $29,217 $29,413 $25,701 $25,892 $28,964 $27,149 $35,388 2004 $29,655 $30,019 $26,166 $26,594 $30,038 $27,902 $36,415 2005 $30,124 $30,642 $26,456 $27,126 $30,905 $28,234 $37,225 2006 $30,467 $31,175 $26,821 $27,695 $31,988 $28,887 $37,934 2007 $31,352 $31,633 $27,983 $28,213 $32,820 $29,550 $38,009 2