The energy costs of road and rail freight transport: UK 1968

Mortimer, Peter F. (1974). The energy costs of road and rail freight transport: UK 1968. ERG Report 4; Energy Research Group, The Open University, Milton Keynes.

Abstract

The ‘energy cost’ of a product is an estimate of the total amount of primary energy required for its production. The total energy consumption includes energy required in fabrication, energy to make the fabricating machinery, energy to provide the materials used and the energy involved in transporting the materials to the assembly point. In fact the production of any ore commodity requires a fraction, all be it often minute, of every production process in the world. This study is party of a project to evaluate the total energy cost of products produced in the UK and therefore only incorporates production processes within the UK. The project is based on the statistical information available in the Report on the Census of Production 1968.

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