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Based on European railway freight transport; instead of mix of electric and diesel trains it includes operation of diesel train only. Inventory refers to the entire transport life cycle. For rail infrastructure, expenditures and environmental interventions due to construction, renewal and disposal of roads have been allocated based on the gross tonne kilometre performance in Europe. Expenditures due to operation of the rail infrastructure, as well as land use have been allocated based on the yearly train kilometre performance in Europe.

dataset
number 11073
timestamp 2010-06-16T17:46:43
validCompanyCodes CompanyCodes.xml
validRegionalCodes RegionalCodes.xml
validCategories Categories.xml
validUnits Units.xml
generator EcoAdmin 1.1.25.22
internalSchemaVersion 1.0

referenceFunction
unit tkm
amount 1
includedProcesses Based on European railway freight transport; instead of mix of electric and diesel trains it includes operation of diesel train only. This dataset calls the modules 'operation of vehicle'; 'production, maintenance and disposal of vehicles'; 'construction and maintenance and disposal of railway tracks'.
infrastructureIncluded true
datasetRelatesToProduct true

geography
location US
text Average US diesel train freight transport; extrapolated from European data: European data refer to diesel freight train transport in Europe (EU 15: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK).The data for rail infrastructure reflect Swiss conditions. Data for vehicle manufacturing and maintenance represents generic European data. Data for the vehicle disposal reflect Swiss situation.

technology

Average technology

timePeriod
startYear 2000
endYear 2000

dataSetInformation
timestamp 2007-08-31T17:42:39
version 2.2