Allocating greenhouse gas emissions to shipments in road freight transportation: Suggestions for a global carbon accounting standard

Kellner, Florian

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.09.030

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“…Other than pure road transportation over the continents, the terrestrial logistic chain emissions were not defi ned entirely. With grey areas (Kellner, 2016) in the calculations, defi ned by a standard EN 16258, the reporting, optimization efforts, comparison and improvement of the footprint, is not exact and not entirely correct. The purpose of calculation of CO2e emissions is only to distinguish among transportation options in aspect of environmental sustainability.…”

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“…For the calculation of the values in the table, the average diesel fuel consumption or electric energy consumption are used. The emissions are calculated according to the rules of the standard EN 16258 (Kellner, 2016).…”

Section: Train Shunting Emissionsmentioning

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“…The European Standard EN 16258(EU, 2019) describes the calculation methodologyfor CO2e emission assessment in transportation. But, there are some gaps in the standard, which need to be covered as well (Kellner, 2016). The procedures within the closed areas, such as a continental container terminal, need a detailed approach.…”

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Determination of environmental footprint of inland container terminals

Merlak¹,

Groznik²,

Al-Mansour³

2019

J Appl Eng Science

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The global warming is forcing us to assess the specifi c environmental impact of all our industrial activities without which we could not imagine our existence anymore. Energy and heat production, industrial production of all kind, agriculture, forestry and other land use, transportation, construction industry and other energy processing and refi ning and transport of fuel. Among stated sources of global Greenhouse Gas Emissions, transportation alone brings a share of 14%, studies show. Due to globalization of the international trade we are not able to avoid the massive movements of raw materials on one side and fi nished products on the other. Thus the Transportation Industry becomes a major factor in production cycle of the majority of products. Transportation modes available today have all the same task, to bring the goods from shipper to consignee as fast and as cheap as possible. Transportation mode selected, isn't necessarily the environmental friendly mode, but only the "best value for money" for the stakeholders. To stimulate the use of environmental friendlier transportation modes,a proper comparison between modes is required.The standard EN16258 provides methodology for calculating Green-House-Gas Emissions during transportation for all transport modes, but there are some grey areas in logistic chains. In Combined transport, where Rail and Road Transportationsare combined, there is a whole segment of activities,needed to shift from one mode to another, where emissions take place and have to be accounted for.

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Determination of environmental footprint of inland container terminals

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Groznik²,

Al-Mansour³

2019

J Appl Eng Science

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“…For an external impact to be assessed the activity-based approach requires conversion factors (see e.g., Piecyk, et al [1]). The European Norm, EN 16258:2012, a European standard for calculating greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, can be used to allocate the outlets of a transport operation to the single shipments [27]. A basic principle in the standard is multiplying quantity of freight by the distance travelled [27].…”

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“…The European Norm, EN 16258:2012, a European standard for calculating greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, can be used to allocate the outlets of a transport operation to the single shipments [27]. A basic principle in the standard is multiplying quantity of freight by the distance travelled [27]. This is very much in line with how McKinnon and Piecyk [25] describe the activity-based approach where CO 2 is the sum of tonnes transported, average distance travelled, and CO 2 emission factor per tonne-km.…”

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Roles and Perspectives When Estimating Energy and Environmental Potentials of Urban Consolidation

Björklund

Simm

2019

Energies

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Urban consolidation centers (UCCs) are presumed to provide more efficient goods distribution in cities and lead to decreased environmental impact and energy usage. There is, however, limited knowledge as to the actual performance of UCCs, and what roles and perspectives the involved actors have in the performance measurement. The overall aim of this paper is to investigate the roles and perspectives of involved actors when estimating and evaluating the performance of UCCs. The article is based on a study of one case that evaluates the performance of a UCC involving several actors. Interviews were triangulated with documents from the case. The results showed that actors have different roles in performance measurements and even if they share a mutual interest in conducting the measurements, they did not share opinions regarding factors such as system limits or performance indicators. The study provides a deeper understanding of the importance of inter-organizational interaction when conducting performance measurements. The study provides additional insights into the roles of the actors and their perspectives in logistics performance measurement that targets energy usage and environmental impact. These aspects are seldom addressed in less complex estimations or mathematical modelling estimations.

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Generating greenhouse gas cutting incentives when allocating carbon dioxide emissions to shipments in road freight transportation

Kellner

2022

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Road freight transportation accounts for a great share of the anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In order to provide a common methodology for carbon accounting related to transport activities, the European Committee for Standardization has published the European Norm EN-16258. Unfortunately, EN-16258 contains gaps and ambiguities and leaves room for interpretation, which makes the comparison of the environmental performance of different logistics networks still difficult and hinders the identification of best practices. This research contributes to the identification of particularly meaningful principles for the allocation of GHG to shipments in road freight transportation by presenting an analytical framework for studying the performance of the EN-16258 allocation schemes with respect to accuracy, fairness, and the GHG minimizing incentive. In doing so, we continue previous studies that analyzed two important aspects of the EN-16258 allocation rules: accuracy and fairness. This study provides further insights into this allocation problem by investigating the incentive power of the different allocation schemes to opt for the GHG minimal way of running a road freight network. First, we complement the list of transport scenarios introduced in prior studies and present two novel scenarios. Second, we carry out a series of numerical experiments to compare the EN-16258 allocation rules with respect to accuracy, fairness, and the GHG minimizing incentive. We find that the results may differ significantly for the two scenarios, suggesting a case-by-case recommendation. This is particularly interesting because the first scenario confirms the results of the prior studies, while the second scenario rather contradicts them.

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Allocating greenhouse gas emissions to shipments in road freight transportation: Suggestions for a global carbon accounting standard

Cited by 23 publications

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Determination of environmental footprint of inland container terminals

Determination of environmental footprint of inland container terminals

Roles and Perspectives When Estimating Energy and Environmental Potentials of Urban Consolidation

Generating greenhouse gas cutting incentives when allocating carbon dioxide emissions to shipments in road freight transportation

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