Produção Nacional
Carbon Footprint of Brazilian Highway Network
2019; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-981-13-7912-3_4
ISSN2345-7651
AutoresLuíza Santana Franca, Glaydston Mattos Ribeiro, Rômulo Dante Orrico Filho, Leonardo Roberto Perim, Ivone Catarina Simões Hoffmann, Carlos Alberto Abramides,
Tópico(s)Transportation Planning and Optimization
ResumoIn Brazil, the transportation sector is based on diesel, gasoline and ethanol consumption for the road transport, which is responsible for 32.4% of total energy consumed, corresponding to 82.7 Mtep. Considering this context, this chapter aims to evaluate the carbon footprint of 52 mil kilometers of the Brazilian highway network. Real data was obtained from a recent National Traffic Counting Plan which considers a qualifying counting of vehicles, during 24 h in a 7 days period, and an origin and destination interviews performed in a total of 300 traffic survey stations. More than 17 million vehicles were counted and classified and 1,384,330 interviews were obtained. From the estimation of the annual average daily traffic for the roads under federal operation and management rules, the carbon footprint was evaluated using a bottom-up approach. The carbon footprint analysis presents more than 8500 TgCO2eq emissions per day, with the major responsibility of light-duty vehicle flow which uses gasoline, ethanol and diesel as fuels.
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