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The New Zealand vehicle fleet: fact and fiction
Iain McGlinchy. Principal Adviser Nov 2017
In 2016 4.7 million kiwis owned:
• ~4,000,000 vehicles of all kinds (not including trailers)• ~ 3,000,000 light petrol vehicles • ~ 650,000 diesel powered light vehicles
► mostly vans, utes light trucks and 4WDs (very few cars)
• ~ 145,000 diesel heavy vehicles (trucks and buses)• ~ 110,000 motor bikes• ~ 30,000 mopeds
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In 2016 4.7 million kiwis owned (cont):
Among these are:• ~ 18,000 hybrid vehicles (~0.5% of the fleet) NB This is an underestimate• ~ 2,900 CNG powered light vehicles• ~ 5,000 LPG powered light vehicles• ~ 2,800 electric light vehicles (ie cars) NB 5479 as at Nov 2017• ~ 75 electric trolley buses• ~ 1 electric truck (now might be 2 or even 3!)• ~ 780,000 vehicles made in 1996 or older (ie 20% of the fleet is more
than 20 years old) • ~ 120,000 vehicles made in 1980 or older (ie 3% of the fleet is more
than 35 years old)
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The NZ vehicle fleet
• About 92% (3.7 million) of our vehicles on road are light vehicles (ie cars, 4WDs, vans, utes and light trucks)
• Just 4% are heavy
Light passenger
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Light commercial
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MCycle4%
Trucks4%
Bus0.3%
Make up of the fleet (2016)
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Motorcycle0.4%
Heavy fleet21.5%Source : VFEM (Vehicle Fleet Emissions Model) 2
The NZ vehicle fleet: where is the fuel used?
► The 4% (~145,000) that are heavy vehicles responsible for ~ 21% of fuel used ► The 14% light commercials use around 15% of the fuel
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Fleet size
•The size of the New Zealand vehicle fleet has been increasing pretty much since records began•In 2007, growth tapered off and remained almost flat for 6 years•But fleet size has been growing again since 2012•NZ’s population has grown since 2000s, so per capita values for ownership (and travel) fell until 2013 but have grown again since then
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Why does the fleet grow?
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Vehicle fleet travel
•Travel has remained remarkably constant since 2003, despite economic changes•Growth in travel since 2013 is probably in response to increase in vehicle fleet size•Per vehicle travel has fallen pretty consistently for light vehicles over last decade
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Vehicle ownership is not uniform throughout New Zealand
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Significant regional variation in ownership levels
Least vehicles per capita are in Gisborne and WellingtonMost vehicles per capita are in Canterbury and Nelson/Marlborough and Southland
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Most vehicles per 1000
Average age varies widely throughout country
Data provided by NZ Transport Agency. It is not consistent with other age data presented here
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Average age varies widely throughout country
Data provided by NZ Transport Agency. It is not consistent with other age data presented here
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Vehicles get older as you go south!
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Average age of light vehicles
•The trend for increasing age as you go south is not as clear if we map it •Clearly see the younger fleets in the cities•Oldest fleets are in middle of the South Island •Queenstown stands out as an anomaly•We do not know why the age increases!
Map of average age of light vehicles (Dec 2014)► Blue is younger than
average, ► Red is older than
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Auckland
Wellington
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The New Zealand vehicle fleet is aging!
We have an old fleet by OECD standards•Average age of light vehicles 14.12 years old•Average age of heavy vehicles 17.74 years old
Lots of stories in newspaper and online
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It is true that the average age of vehicles in our fleet has been steadily rising since around 2000
Trend is aging, but perhaps not as dramatic as it looks
The fleet got younger (by 0.1 years) in 2014 for first time since 2000
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What will happen to fleet age in coming years?
► Short answer is we don’t know what will happen to average age!
► The Ministry has spent a lot of time trying to model the aging of the vehicle fleet
► We found that the rates of scrappage are more important than imports, but are virtually impossible to predict accurately
► Although imports were up in 2013 over previous years, 2013 had the lowest level of vehicle scrappage since 2002!
► Scrapping has increased since 2014, but less than imports
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THE REAL QUESTION IS WHY IS THE NZ FLEET SO MUCH OLDER THAN OTHERS?
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Theoretical age profile of a developed country vehicle fleet
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Age distribution of NZ light vehicle fleet (Dec 2013)
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► We have a completely disproportionate number of vehicles built 1995 – 1997
Age distribution of NZ light vehicle fleet (Dec 2016)
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Most fleets got older, except AustraliaMainly a result of improved rust prevention
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It is the bulge of Japanese used vehicles that is getting older
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• Average age of NZ New vehicles is staying pretty constant (~12.8yrs) while Japanese-used rising steadily
• The effect of restricting import of used diesels in 2007 has had clear effects on average age• reducing imports does
not increase scrappage
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BUT, DOES VEHICLE AGE MATTER
Newer vehicles tend to have better occupant protection
On average, variables for road safety do improve with younger vehicles
Injury risk by year of manufacture (with 95% confidence limits)
Source: Vehicle safety ratings estimated from Police reported crash data: 2012 update Monash 2012
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But crashes are not related to average vehicle age
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BUT WHAT ABOUT HARMFUL EMISSIONS?
Do newer vehicles produce less harmful emissions?
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► Volkswagen scandal has shown us that this may not be true either
What is happening with emisisons at a vehicle level?
• To find out what is happening at an individual vehicle level we use remote sensing which measures pollutants in exhausts of vehicles as they drive past measuring device
• Many tens of thousands of vehicles have been measured in series of research trials since 2003
• Heavy vehicles are hard to measure due to vertical exhausts!• The good news is that per-vehicle levels of harmful emissions from light petrol vehicles
are declining steadily, primarily as a result of introduction of standards
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NZ New light diesel vehicles
Results from 2015 remote sensing trials (Cont)
• Of concern, is that for light diesel vehicles emissions are not falling • But, survey in 2015, Euro 6 is working!
Japanese used light diesel vehicles
In this data Japan 05 emissions are roughly the same as Euro 5
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Emissions, by standard for 2015 research
BUT WHAT ABOUT FUEL USE?
Fuel use vs fleet size
• There is very little evidence that age and fuel economy are linked• If efficiency was improving, fuel use
(PJ) would decline relative to fleet size
• Since 1974 (when fuel data starts) there has been a very close relationship between fuel use and size of fleet (R2 = 0.94)
• Appears other variables, like state of economy, (or changes to fleet age) are not strongly affecting fuel use
Fuel data from “All Domestic Transport” http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/sectors-industries/energy/energy-data-modelling/statistics/documents-image-library/oil.xlsx
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Engine sizes of older vehicles are usually smaller
• Until fairly recently if you replace a vehicle with a newer model, the replacement will have a larger engine.
• But trend has shifted in recent years with move away from big petrol to 4WD dieseleffect may be less important
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• In 2016, it may no longer be true that vehicle entering will have smaller engine than one leaving, • if it is petrol
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• If you replace an older vehicle with a younger vehicle, on average it will travel further• This relationship has not changed noticeably since 2000
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Quick conclusions
• This means, that on average, if we had a younger fleet (as a result of actively getting rid of our existing older vehicles) the resulting fleet would probably have a larger engine size and travel further than our current fleet!
• Actively intervening to create a younger fleet to reduce CO2 emissions, would probably not work
• However, if the size of the fleet shrinks as older used vehicles are scrapped (and if they are not replaced) then fuel use may also fall
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Quick conclusions (cont)
• MOT analysis also shows that the increased risk (exposure) from increased travel means safety disbenefit from adding newer vehicles -unless they have a very high standard of safety
• If newer vehicles travel further this also means that policies that are related to how far vehicles travel (eg total fuel consumption and exposure risk) will get greater befit from focussing on new vehicles.
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Age of the fleet is not what you are looking for
• While the average age of the fleet has risen in past 10 years, the age of scrapping has not changed markedly.
• This means that we turn over vehicles about the same age as Australia or US
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Average travel is a more useful variable
• Distance is a better predictor of scrappage than age, as people dispose of vehicles due to mechanical failure, not age
• Distance travelled over vehicle life time has steadily increased since 2000
• We don’t know why Japanese used vehicle total travel is lower
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“WHY DON’T WE RUN A SCRAPPAGE SCHEME?”
Costs and benefits of scrappage scheme
• In 2007 and 2009 the Ministry of Transport ran scrappage schemes in which we offered small incentives to encourage people to scrap their vehicles.
• Trials were run in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch• Analysis showed that the monetised benefit of removing
a vehicle 12 months earlier than it would otherwise have been scrapped were in the order of $20 to $120.
• Greatest safety gains were in using PT, which is much safer to use than private motor car
• Trade Me data from 2014 (most recent available) said average sale price of car more than 15 years old is ~$2,000
• http://www.transport.govt.nz/land/vehiclescrappageschemes/
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BUT HAVEN’T VEHICLES GOT MORE EFFICIENT OVER TIME?
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possible.1972 Toyota Corolla 1.2l 2016 Toyota Corolla 1.8l
1972 Honda Civic 1.2l 2016 Honda Civic 1.8l
Much of the benefit of increasing technical efficiency has been traded off against weight and increased power
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Efficiency vs weight
Source: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fetrends.htm
US data suggests fuel economy (MPG) actually got worse between 1980s and mid-2000s
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Divergence between rated fuel consumption and real realworld in independent European testing
Source: http://www.theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT_LabToRoad_20130527.pdf
• European research also shows that steady divergence between fuel economy measured by manufacturers compared with results from real world driving
• Strong suggestion from this and Japanese data that manufacturers build cars to pass the test, not for real world
• This may partly explain why we are not seeing expected changes in the fuel economy in the real world
• Also, other variables, like congestion may also have gotten worse over this time
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All light petrol vehicles – divergence in FE (%)
► This is data from MOT research comparing real word fuel use vsmanufacturers published figure
► A small number of petrol vehicles are more fuel efficient than would be expected from the type approval numbers
► There is some correlation between real-world and type approval FE values
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Light petrol vehicles: Divergence in fuel economy
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► Data from 2015 MOT study of real world fleet fuel use: http://atrf.info/papers/2015/files/ATRF2015_Resubmission_9.pdf► 46
Contact
Iain McGlinchyPrincipal AdviserMinistry of Transport (021) 918 [email protected]
www.transport.govt.nz
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