Review of Transportation and Energy Consumption Related Research

With high consumption of energy, especially petroleum resources, transportation industry has received much concern. In view of this, the paper summarizes the domestic and international research achievements on transportation energy consumption, such as external cost determination of energy consumption, influencing factor analysis, statistical indices and data comparison, interactive relation between transportation energy consumption and social economy, relevant planning and policy making, prediction of energy demand of transportation industry. It also analyzes the characteristics and shortcomings of the existing researches. Some key issues concerning the future researches are put forward, namely, the statistical data collection and comparative indices determination, estimation of comparative consumption factors of different transportation modes, exploration of influencing factors and sensitivity analysis, as well as the establishment of relevant basic data platform and theory and method system.