The data of energy consumptions of road , rail and inland shipping transport’ are supplied by China Communication Yearbook 2011 and the Key Data on the National Highway and Waterway Traffic Special Survey Bulletin published by the Ministry of Communication in 2010. To facilitate the estimation and comparison , the energy consumption of the three transport modes had been converted into the unified measurement unit and the unit is kg/tkm which means the energy consumption for carriage per ton goods to per kilometer.