Emission Factor

Transport - freight - train - fleet average (steam)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is transport, freight, train, steam. The reference product is transport, freight, train, fleet average. This is delivering the service of transportation of 1 metric ton across the distance of 1 km. This service only considers the transportation of goods. The vehicle operates with diesel, electricity or gard coal, while it has a mass of 1000 Gt. The transport node indirectly considers empty trips (if any) by taking into account the total amount of freight transported throughout the lifetime of the mobile infrastructure. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/5503/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameTransport - freight - train - fleet average (steam)
SectorTransport
CategoryRail Freight
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
1999
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/tonne-km
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
freight_train-route_type_na-fuel_type_na-train_type_steam
UUID
30916b4b-102c-4e8e-8d69-ee02862c16ff
Code Snippet
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