Climate change is one of the most important challenges society is facing. Climate change is mainly due to the release of greenhouse gases (GHG) by humans. The transportation sector plays a major role in the release of GHG. However, little effort has been made worldwide for decreasing transportation emissions. Accounting for transportation emissions has become a great concern. SETEC International is one of the leading engineering groups for the design of transportation infrastructure in France. Through this Master’s Thesis, SETEC wanted to develop a carbon accounting tool for calculating GHG emissions from three types of infrastructures: road, railway and airport. This Thesis explains how the carbon accounting tool was designed in order to take into consideration most of the GHG emissions caused by transportation infrastructures. Carbon accounting of an infrastructure aims to determine the elements that emit the most GHG so that design recommendations can be made and the carbon footprint of the infrastructure reduced.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kth-171792 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Le Bourhis, Jean-Marie |
| Publisher | KTH, Mark- och vattenteknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | TRITA-LWR Degree Project, 1651-064X ; 2014:05 |
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