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3 Regions3 Region
261 Activities261 Activity

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Emissions from an average commute for different UK regions. Uses UK Government emissions factors and travel data from UK Government and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.

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Commuting
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Climatiq UK spend-based
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Commuting

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Description
Emissions from an average commute for different UK regions. Uses UK Government emissions factors and travel data from UK Government and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
Source type
Corporate
Original dataset URLURL
Year released
2025
Geography
GB
Sector
Type of data
Activity-based
Emission results
CO2e
Data Transformation
NA

License

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Type of license
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
License URLURL

Data quality

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Data quality assurance
Created by Climatiq
Quality flag(s)
NA

Methodology

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IPCC AR method
  • AR6
LCA boundary
  • well_to_wheel
Scope applicability
  • 3.7
Emissions breakdown
  • Total (CO2e, AR6)
Methodology description

Climatiq has created emission factors for an average commute in different regions of the UK using publicly available data. These are intended to give a first, screening-level estimate of commuting emissions where no other data is available.

The emission factors represent one day’s two-way commute.

The distances traveled by each mode of transport are derived from the tables listed below. The final commuting emission factors are calculated by multiplying these distances (km) by the emission factor values (CO2e per km or passenger-km) for each mode of transport. They include upstream emissions from fuel production.

Sources of data

UK Government: Transport data is for 2023 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/tsgb01-modal-comparisons https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/nts99-travel-by-region-and-area-type-of-residence

Northern Ireland Government: Transport data is for 2021 https://www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/publications/travel-survey-northern-ireland-tsni-depth-report-2021

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