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Specific climate impact of passenger and freight transport

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  • Creators:
    Borken-Kleefeld, Jens ; Bernsten, Terje ; Fuglestvedt, Jan
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Resource Type:
    Journal Article
  • Corporate Publisher:
    American Chemical Society
  • NTL Classification:
    NTL-FREIGHT-FREIGHT ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Environment Impacts ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Transit Energy and Environment ; NTL-RAIL TRANSPORTATION-RAIL TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-RAIL TRANSPORTATION-Rail Energy and Environment ; NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-Transit Energy and Environment
  • Abstract:
    Emissions of short-lived species contribute significantly to ; the climate impact of transportation. The magnitude of the effects ; varies over time for each transport mode. This paper compares ; first the absolute climate impacts of current passenger and ; freight transportation. Second, the impacts are normalized with ; the transport work performed and modes are compared. ; Calculations are performed for the integrated radiative forcing ; and mean temperature change, for different time horizons ; and various measures of transport work. An unambiguous ; ranking of the specific climate impact can be established for ; freight transportation, with shipping and rail having lowest and ; light trucks and air transport having highest specific impact ; for all cases calculated. Passenger travel with rail, coach or twoand ; three-wheelers has on average the lowest specific ; climate impact also on short time horizons. Air travel has the ; highest specific impact on short-term warming, while on longterm ; warming car travel has an equal or higher impact per ; passenger-kilometer.
  • Format:
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  • Download URL:
    https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18411/dot_18411_DS1.pdf
  • File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 108.46 KB]
  • Collection(s):
    US Transportation Collection
  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:cdcf3b02a56187b44a31a8e6876985a32f8acf60fef99eeed2b3af386b155b26fe3e5abf8b3e24c0ecf27d7adddf522d74bb96121a96bc2dc95df2c26d461e6d
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