Capacity of urban transport modes per metre of infrastructure width

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Exercise 3. The graph below shows comparison of capacities in an urban setting. What can you see from the graph? Discuss with a partner. The following phrases may help.

Exercise 2. Find the adverbs in a paragraph. Do they refer to small or large differences?

Since 1970, transport activity has more than doubled in the European Union: +185 % for the transport of goods and +145 % for the transport of people. Railways' share of the transport energy consumption is less than 3 %, while its market share is between 6 % (passenger) and 10 % (freight). Comparing heavy or spacious cargo, short or long-haul, rail is the most energy efficient transport mode if used appropriately. Scientists have compared the total primary energy consumption from transporting 100 tons of average goods from Basel, Switzerland to the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands. The results show that rail is more energy efficient than inland waterways and over twice as efficient as lorries. Compared with air transport, rail would be around 20 times more energy efficient.

As can be seen from the graph,…

The capacity from rail is … times higher than a bus.

The graph shows that the capacity is much higher for … than …

… has the highest capacity when comparing throughput per hour and infrastructure width.

… is more efficient, and … is over twice as efficient as …

Compared with …, rail would be around … times more efficient.