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of passengers-kilometres in the reference year. The consumption factor for the train is worth 0,15<br />

kWh/person.km. Note that this is a mean value that integrates both peak and off-peak hours.<br />

The distance index (in km) represents the mean distance travelled (one way) by one worker/student<br />

from home to work/school.<br />

(2) Distance index (i) = ∑m Dmi / Ti<br />

The modal share index (in %) represents the frequency of use for each mean of transportation per<br />

territorial unit, according to equation (3), where NDn is the number of trips by mode n.<br />

(3) Modal share index mode n (i) = NDn / ∑m NDm<br />

Indices are calculated at three territorial scale: the census block (or district) scale, the former<br />

municipality scale and the municipality scale. In addition to these indexes, the annual energy<br />

consumption for home-to-work (or home-to-school) trips is calculated according to equation (4), where<br />

TDi represents the total number of home-to-work (or home-to-school) trips (one way) for all the<br />

workers (or students) living within the territorial unit i. This factor takes into account the number of<br />

working days for each worker.<br />

(4) Annual energy consumption (i) = Energy performance index (i) * TDi<br />

Note that the unit of energy chosen to express the energy efficiency of home-to-work and home-to-<br />

school trips (kWh) was chosen to allow for a comparison between energy consumption in transport<br />

Marique AF, Dujardin S, Teller J & Reiter S (In press) Urban sprawl, commuting and travel energy<br />

consumption. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Energy.<br />

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