Influence of vehicle type and road category on natural resource consumption in road transport |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory of Construction Economics and Management, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 2100, FIN-02015 TKK, Finland;2. Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, Kotkankatu 9, FIN-00510 Helsinki, Finland;3. Department of Geography, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014, Finland;4. Turku Polytechnic, Sepänkatu 3, FIN-20700 Turku, Finland;1. School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Anhui, Bengbu 233030, PR China;2. Department of Statistics, Rice University, United States;1. Institute of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641,China;2. Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006,China;1. Department of Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan;2. Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center, College of Engineering, Qatar University, P.O.Box 2713, Doha, Qatar;3. Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, P.O.Box 2713, Doha, Qatar;1. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India;2. Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation, and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India |
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| Abstract: | This study calculates the natural resource use of road transport for different road categories and for different vehicle types. Material inputs per service are determined as the life cycle wide consumption of materials by the road and vehicles, and set against person-kilometres and ton-kilometres transported. If the material input of the infrastructure is allocated to the users according to traffic volume, the material input per service values for abiotic resources and for water are much higher for cars than for bus traffic. The material inputs per service unit for air is significantly lower for buses than for cars. For bicycles, abiotic natural resource consumption is between that for cars and buses, while water consumption is in most instances the highest and air consumption the lowest for the modes studied. The material input per service values for the full trailer are significantly lower than for other goods vehicles. The material inputs per service value for air is significantly higher in the case of vans. If the allocation of road infrastructure use is done by gross vehicle weight, the material input per service values for abiotic resources and water of buses and heavy lorries rise. |
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