A Climate/Environmental/Health Impact Assessment IT-Tool for Freight Transportation

This paper presents a novel web-service tool, which offers different levels of calculating the climate, environmental and health impacts of freight transports, that are presently being developed within the framework of NTM - The Network for Transport and Environment. The primary components of the tool include 1) consistent, transparent and internationally recognized methodologies to calculate emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants and fuel/energy use associated with freight transports, 2) a common database containing the data needed to perform these calculations, linking to 3) a web-service carrying out the calculations, either via a web user interface or via a client-server solution.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Swahn, Magnus
  • Hagstrom, Martin
  • Backstrom, Sebastian
  • Wolf, Christina
  • SJODIN, AKE
• Conference:
  • 16th ITS World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services
  • Location: Stockholm , Sweden
  • Date: 2009-9-21 to 2009-9-25
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 8p
• Monograph Title: ITS in Daily Life

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Climate change; Environmental impacts; Exhaust gases; Freight transportation; Greenhouse gases; Intelligent transportation systems; Pollutants
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Transportation (General); I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01146621
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 22 2009 9:00AM