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Table 4-26: Energy Intensity of Amtrak Services
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Revenue
passenger-miles (millions) |
3,931 |
4,503 |
4,785 |
6,057 |
6,273 |
6,091 |
6,199 |
5,921 |
5,545 |
5,050 |
5,166 |
5,304 |
5,330 |
5,498 |
5,559 |
5,468 |
5,680 |
Locomotive
fuel consumed |
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Total
fuel consumed (billion Btu)a |
9,367 |
9,673 |
9,995 |
12,512 |
12,406 |
12,328 |
12,511 |
11,457 |
10,191 |
10,875 |
11,365 |
11,341 |
11,229 |
11,735 |
11,674 |
U |
U |
Electric
(millions of kWh)a |
180 |
254 |
295 |
330 |
303 |
300 |
301 |
309 |
304 |
293 |
282 |
275 |
283 |
350 |
377 |
U |
U |
Diesel
(million gallons) |
63 |
64 |
65 |
82 |
82 |
82 |
83 |
75 |
66 |
71 |
75 |
75 |
74 |
76 |
75 |
U |
U |
Energy intensity (Btu/revenue passenger-mile)a |
2,383 |
2,148 |
2,089 |
2,066 |
1,978 |
2,024 |
2,018 |
1,935 |
1,838 |
2,153 |
2,200 |
2,138 |
2,107 |
2,134 |
2,100 |
U |
U |
KEY: Btu = British thermal unit; kWh = kilowatt
hour; U = data are not available.
a Does not include electric
power generation and distribution losses, which, if included, would triple
the electric conversion factor given below and increase the numbers in this
row by about 20 percent.
NOTE
The heat equivalent factors used in Btu conversion are: diesel =
138,700 Btu/gallon; electric = 3,412 Btu/kWh.
SOURCES
Revenue passenger-miles:
1975-2002: Amtrak, Amtrak Annual
Report, Statistical Appendix (Washington, DC: Annual issues).
2003: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts 2004 (Washington,
DC: 2004), p. 77.
Locomotive fuel consumed:
1975-2001: Ibid., State and Local Affairs Department, personal
communication.
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