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A-24<br />

Energy Use<br />

Transit buses:<br />

American Public Transit Association, <strong>20</strong>00 Transit Fact Book, Washington, DC, <strong>20</strong>00,<br />

pp. 112-l 14. Gasoline consumption was assumed to be used by motor buses. For<br />

the years 1988-92, motor bus gasoline use was estimated as 5% of “other” fuels,<br />

based on personal communication with the APTA Research and Statistics<br />

Department.<br />

Intercity buses:<br />

1970-80 - American Bus Association, Annual Report, Washington, DC, annual.<br />

1985-98 - Eno Transportation Foundation, Transportation in America 1999, Seventeenth<br />

edition, Lansdowne, VA, p. 56. For conversion purposes, fuel <strong>for</strong> all intercity buses<br />

was assumed to be diesel fuel.<br />

School buses:<br />

1970-80 - DOT, FHWA, Highway Statistics 1984, Washington, DC, Table VM-1, and<br />

annual.<br />

1985-86 - DOT, Research and Special Programs Administration,National Transportation<br />

Statistics, Figure 2, p. 5, and annual.<br />

1987-98- Eno Transportation Foundation, Transportation in America 1999,Seventeenth<br />

edition, Lansdowne, VA, p. 56. For conversion purposes, fuel <strong>for</strong> school was<br />

assumed to be 90% diesel fuel and 10% gasoline based on estimates from the<br />

National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services.

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