Emission Factor

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for road. The reference product is road. This is delivering the service of road construction, referring to one meter and year. The service includes the expenditures and interventions due to the provision of road, tunnel and bridge infrastructures, the renewal of different road layers and eventual road decommission. Different layers of the road have different life spans: surfacing has a life span of 15 years, road foundation 40 years and subgrade 100 years. The maintenance of the road is not included, as it is modelled in separate dataset. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/3186/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameRoad (market for)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2011
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/m-year
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_road_market_for_road
UUID
959e7b93-ac0c-4bb6-b4d7-8d5908e34c16
Code Snippet
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