Cargo Transport Energy Consumption Factors Analysis: Based on LMDI Decomposition Technique

The energy constraint is the hot topic in the current global and transportation industry energy consumption keep increasing. How to evaluate various factors in the carriage of goods by the contribution degree of energy consumption has important significance to reduce the energy consumption of carriage of goods. This paper builds a model of cargo transport energy consumption, using the LMDI decomposition technique to analysis the influence factors of cargo transport consumption of China in 2000-2012. Results show that GDP growth is China the leading factor in the continued growth in energy consumption, degradation of transportation structure cause the growth of energy consumption, the decrease of transport of goods intensity and cargo transportation energy consumption intensity can reduce energy consumption. In this paper, here are the conclusions: the optimization of transport structure and industrial layout and promote technological progress, which is helpful for the decrease of energy consumption of goods.