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These numbers are pretty different than the ones here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_effic
by homerowilson 11y ago
These numbers are pretty different than the ones here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportat...
citation:
Davis, Stacy C.; Susan W. Diegel; Robert G. Boundy (2011). Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 30. US Department of Energy. pp. Table 2.12. ORNL-6986 (Edition 30 of ORNL-5198). Retrieved 2012-02-22.
Passenger trains are more efficient than planes, even when low capacity is assumed.
What surprised me is how efficient air travel has become, it really is quite impressive.
- cpncrunch 11y agoThe wikipedia page uses 2009 figures, versus 2005 from the article. Overall the wikipedia page is a more useful article.
- mjevans 11y agoI think a large source of the variability in those numbers is the (active travelers) per vehicle. It surprises me how carpooling is actually more effective than buses, but then I realize that it's a point transfer without a driver. I wonder what automated route pooling and 'johnny cab' style self driving cars would do to those numbers?