<p>It’s a fact that the climate is affected by the vehicle that runs on the worlds roads. But the</p><p>construction of the road itself is rarely thought of as a climate threat. Svevia and the Swedish road</p><p>administration have opposite views of how the construction of roads should be carried thru. It’s</p><p>the difference between those two construction methods that is the base in our thesis.</p><p>The amount of energy use or the emissions are not analyzed for neither the Swedish road</p><p>administrations nor Svevias construction models. Our thesis has compared these two models of</p><p>constructing a road to evaluate what affects the climate the least. In other words which material</p><p>and which construction model that is best to use to reduce the impact on the climate.</p><p>We have calculated the total amount of carbon dioxide and energy use for road models in different</p><p>traffic classes. To do this we designed a calculation tool that calculates on the total amount of</p><p>MWh used and the total amount of tons carbon dioxide emitted during the construction of a road.</p><p>This calculation tool could even in the future be used to calculate energy use and emissions from</p><p>new types of construction models.</p><p>The results for the construction models we calculated is that Svevias construction models have a</p><p>tendency to have some less emissions of carbon dioxide and demand somewhat less energy than</p><p>the Swedish road administration construction models. A difference also shows between different</p><p>traffic classes. Traffic class low gives considerably fewer emissions and demands less energy use</p><p>than traffic class high.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hh-2609 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Andersson, Camilla, Gunnarsson, Helen |
| Publisher | Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för Ekonomi och Teknik (SET) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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