Freight traffic causes energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and exhaust emissions. Progressive transport planners wish to know the eco-impacts of transport services according to transport mode in order to reduce these impacts. For this reason railway companies from Germany (DB CARGO), Sweden (Green Cargo), France (SNCF), Italy (TRENITALIA) and Switzerland (SBB/CFF/FFS) initiated a joint project to develop an environmental database as well as a methodology and an internet-based tool for their calculation. The objective of the project EcoTransIT is an assessment of the transport modes road, rail, inland waterways, sea, and air for individually specified transport services. EcoTransIT is a tool for the calculation of energy consumption and emissions caused by a user-defined transport inside Europe. The user can compare the results of the chosen transport by road, rail, inland waterways, sea or air according to the transport modes provided for the route chosen. Further EcoTransIT calculates the impacts of multi-modal transport chains individually designed by the user. For the covering abstract see ITRD E126595.
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