Transportation energy in Swedish towns and regions

摘要: An investigation of 97 towns and 15 commuting regions in Sweden shows that the developmental pattern has a significant influence on energy consumption for transportation. The main source data is officiai Swedish statistics fuel sales quantities municipalities 1989, adjusted agricultural sector. For individual town, dense development clearly gives lowest per capita At regional level, however, decentralized residence seems to be favourable with respect conservation, provided each town village sufficiently high population density.