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Emission Factor

Rail

0.0232094
kgCO2e/ton-mile

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Emission factor summary

Emission intensity of rail. The primary source is EPA Emission Factors for Greenhouse Gas Inventories - Table 8 Business Travel and Employee Commuting - March 9 2018. NOTE: GHG protocol reports as source table Table 8 but the emission factors for CO2 CH4 and N2O are actually reported in Table 9 Upstream Transportation and Distribution and Downstream Transportation and Distribution. NOTE: This dataset has been deprecated by the source and will be removed soon.

PropertyValue
NameRail
SectorTransport
CategoryRail Freight
SourceGHG Protocol
Source DatasetGHG Emissions Calculation Tool
Region
United States of America (the) (US)
Unit Type
Weight Over Distance
Year
2021
Year Released
2021
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0.0232094kg/ton-mile
  • CO20.023 kg/ton-mile
  • CH40.0000018 kg/ton-mile
  • N2O6e-7 kg/ton-mile
Scopes3.4, 3.9
LCA Activity
fuel_combustion
CO2e Calculation Origin
Source
CO2e Calculation Method
AR5
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR4, AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Replaced
  • Replaced in: 9Version log
  • Replaced by: 4d98a950-f9b2-4de5-b491-8e0a11f32342

API Reference

Activity ID
freight_train-route_type_na-fuel_type_na
UUID
8b1a84c5-dfb1-4980-aa25-d84794b1937a
Code Snippet
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