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CCP: 110
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 296

Environmental Impact Assessment of Rail Freight Intermodality

A.L. Merchan, S. Belboom and A. Leonard

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Liege, Belgium

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A.L. Merchan, S. Belboom, A. Leonard, "Environmental Impact Assessment of Rail Freight Intermodality", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 296, 2016. doi:10.4203/ccp.110.296
Keywords: environmental impact, life cycle assessment, rail freight.

Summary
The European Commission's White Paper on transport seeks to achieve an efficient and sustainable balance between the various transport modes. In this context, BRAIN-TRAINS is a project supported by Belgian Federal Government that deals with rail freight intermodality, approaching the problem from an interdisciplinary perspective. BRAIN-TRAINS will be able to answer the transition involved in transportation in Belgium. To analyse the sustainability impact of rail freight intermodality in Belgium, the life cycle assessment methodology will be used. The rail freight system is divided in this paper into rail operation, rail equipment and rail infrastructure. This paper shows the methodology to calculate the transport emissions related with the energy consumption during the rail operation.

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