Abstract Airports are important nodes in the air transport system, but also local sources of environmental impacts. Emissions of CO2 are among the most relevant ones because of their potential greenhouse effects. Many policies and guidelines have been identified at national and world level to reduce such kind of impacts. In this paper, a Transport Carbon Footprint methodology has been set to identify Unit Carbon Footprints (UCFs) linked to some identified emission macro-sources – i.e., land vehicles, on-ground aircraft, airport handling and terminal equipment – to compute the contribution of the single macro-source to the total amount of CO2. Particularly, UCFs due to transport activities have been defined according to some relevant transport variables. The computation of UCF values for a given airport allows computing both the contribution of each macro-source and also evaluating the effectiveness of transport-related actions aiming at reducing the carbon impact. The methodology has been applied to the airport of Bologna, in Northern Italy, and its UCF values for the identified macro-sources have been computed.

    Highlights A transport carbon footprint (TCF) methodology is proposed to define airport carbon emissions. Relevant transport variables and the related carbon macro-sources are identified. CO2 associated to each variable is estimated to obtain the Unit Carbon Footprint. The application made to the real case of Bologna airport shows satisfactory results. Airport operators may take advantages of the TCF to set suitable developing strategies.


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    Title :

    A transport carbon footprint methodology to assess airport carbon emissions


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    2014-01-01


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    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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