Road Transport Energy Demand Analysis and Energy Saving Potentials in Thailand

Energy demands and CO2 emissions in the transport sector have dramatically increased since Thailand started to transform its economy to an industrialised country. Since 1995, the transport sector has been the largest energy consuming sector in Thailand, accounting for about 38% of the total final energy consumption. Road transport, which plays an important role in economic development, consumed almost 80% of the energy consumption in the transport sector and also produced an extremely large amount of CO2 emissions. Because of dramatically increasing of oil price and environmental impact concern, various policy measures are sought and introduced in order to reduce energy demand and also to mitigate related emissions in this sector. The measures include efforts to increase energy efficiency