Klimatsmarta transporter - En fallstudie av Norconsults tjänsteresor för geotekniska fältundersökningar
(2022) FMIM01 20221Environmental and Energy Systems Studies
- Abstract
- Global authorities and businesses around the world have come up with a joint climate goal, including strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to fight and reach the “1.5 degrees” goal in time. Norconsult, which is a consulting company that operates within social planning, and infrastructural design, is one of many modern companies that have initiated their own internal climate goals, focusing on reducing GHG emissions. Norconsult hopes to achieve climate neutrality by 2045. In order to reach this goal, multiple climate measures have to be made. In essence, about 70 % of Norconsult’s GHG emissions stem from their business trips and geological field surveys. Business trips to and from the field surveys have previously been... (More)
- Global authorities and businesses around the world have come up with a joint climate goal, including strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to fight and reach the “1.5 degrees” goal in time. Norconsult, which is a consulting company that operates within social planning, and infrastructural design, is one of many modern companies that have initiated their own internal climate goals, focusing on reducing GHG emissions. Norconsult hopes to achieve climate neutrality by 2045. In order to reach this goal, multiple climate measures have to be made. In essence, about 70 % of Norconsult’s GHG emissions stem from their business trips and geological field surveys. Business trips to and from the field surveys have previously been completed according to the current standard, meaning transportation with the help of heavy trucks that carries both personnel, and drilling rigs. Alternative transportation methods which incorporate climate measures have been developed by Norconsult in an effort to combat the company’s GHG emissions. The climate measures that are incorporated in this master thesis are choice of vehicle and its fuel type, optimum route, optimum load weight, and eco-driving. The purpose of this thesis is thus to investigate the climate impact of Norconsult's previous, current and future transportation methods, and to analyze the possibilities or obstacles that exist for implementing these climate measures on a larger scale. To determine this, a literature study has been carried out combined with climate calculations according to a life cycle analysis (LCA) methodology. The GHG emission calculations have been carried out for a base scenario, and three scenarios for the alternative transportation methods. The base scenario corresponds to a business as usual scheme, with all transportation of personnel and drilling rigs carried into effect by a heavy truck. The three scenarios with climate measures include transportation of the drilling rig with a heavy truck, and transportation of personnel by car with different drivelines. Norconsult operates on three different mission types based on distance, namely local, regional, and long-distance. Climate calculations have been performed for each scenario as well as the different types of missions that Norconsult executes. The results from the climate calculations reveal that the amount of carbon dioxide equivalents per field survey performed can be 2 to 7 times less when using the alternative transportation methods as opposed to the current standard method. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Nationer och aktörer världen över har satt upp klimatmål och strategier för att minska på sina utsläpp av växthusgaser i kampen för att uppnå 1,5 gradersmålet i tid. Norconsult som är ett konsultföretag verksamma inom samhällsplanering och samhällsbyggnad är ett av många företag som satt upp interna mål om utsläppsreduktion för att minska på verksamhetens egen klimatpåverkan. Norconsult hoppas på att vara klimatneutrala till 2045 och för att uppnå detta så behöver ett flertal klimatåtgärder vidtas. Detta gäller framför allt företagets tjänsteresor kopplade till de geologiska fältundersökningar som Norconsult utför. Dessa tjänsteresor står för cirka 70% av Norconsults utsläpp av växthusgaser. Tjänsteresorna till och från de geologiska... (More)
- Nationer och aktörer världen över har satt upp klimatmål och strategier för att minska på sina utsläpp av växthusgaser i kampen för att uppnå 1,5 gradersmålet i tid. Norconsult som är ett konsultföretag verksamma inom samhällsplanering och samhällsbyggnad är ett av många företag som satt upp interna mål om utsläppsreduktion för att minska på verksamhetens egen klimatpåverkan. Norconsult hoppas på att vara klimatneutrala till 2045 och för att uppnå detta så behöver ett flertal klimatåtgärder vidtas. Detta gäller framför allt företagets tjänsteresor kopplade till de geologiska fältundersökningar som Norconsult utför. Dessa tjänsteresor står för cirka 70% av Norconsults utsläpp av växthusgaser. Tjänsteresorna till och från de geologiska uppdragen har tidigare skett enligt branschstandard, det vill säga med hjälp av tung lastbil som transporterar både personal och borrigg. Alternativa transportmetoder som inkluderar ett antal klimatåtgärder har tagits fram av Norconsult i strävan efter att minska på företagets växthusgasutsläpp. De klimatåtgärder som inkluderats i detta examensarbete är val av fordon och drivmedel, optimering av färdrutt, optimering av lastvikt samt eco-driving. Syftet med detta examensarbete är därmed att undersöka vilken klimatpåverkan Norconsults tidigare och nuvarande samt framtida alternativa transportmetoder har samt analysera vilka möjligheter eller hinder som finns för att implementera dessa alternativa transportmetoder i större skala. För att göra detta har en litteraturstudie genomförts kombinerat med klimatberäkningar enligt livscykelanalys-metodik. Klimatberäkningarna har genomförts för ett grundscenario samt tre scenarier för de alternativa transportmetoderna. Grundscenariot motsvarar ett business as usual scenario där samtliga transporter av personal och borrigg sker med hjälp av tung lastbil. De tre scenarierna för de alternativa transportmetoderna inkluderar en enkel transport med tung lastbil för borriggen samt ett flertal transporter av personal med hjälp av personbil. Varje personbil i de tre scenarierna har olika drivlinor. Klimatberäkningarna har utförts för samtliga scenarier samt för de tre olika uppdragstyper som Norconsult utför, nämligen lokala, regionala och långväga. Resultaten från klimatberäkningarna visar på att mängden koldioxidekvivalenter per utfört geologiskt uppdrag kan bli 2–7 gånger mindre tack vare alternativa transportmetoder vilket följaktligen gör dem bättre ur klimatsynpunkt. (Less)
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- author
- Huynh, Emily LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Climate friendly transportation – A case study of the transportations of Norconsult’s geotechnical field investigations
- course
- FMIM01 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
- subject
- keywords
- Transport, geoteknisk fältundersökning, klimatberäkningar, livscykelanalys, klimatpåverkan, transportmetod, geotechnical field survey, climate calculations, life cycle analysis, climate impact, transportation method
- report number
- ISRN LUTFD2/TFEM--22/5183--SE + (1-66)
- ISSN
- 1102-3651
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9091777
- date added to LUP
- 2022-06-22 08:20:57
- date last changed
- 2022-06-22 08:20:57
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abstract = {{Global authorities and businesses around the world have come up with a joint climate goal, including strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to fight and reach the “1.5 degrees” goal in time. Norconsult, which is a consulting company that operates within social planning, and infrastructural design, is one of many modern companies that have initiated their own internal climate goals, focusing on reducing GHG emissions. Norconsult hopes to achieve climate neutrality by 2045. In order to reach this goal, multiple climate measures have to be made. In essence, about 70 % of Norconsult’s GHG emissions stem from their business trips and geological field surveys. Business trips to and from the field surveys have previously been completed according to the current standard, meaning transportation with the help of heavy trucks that carries both personnel, and drilling rigs. Alternative transportation methods which incorporate climate measures have been developed by Norconsult in an effort to combat the company’s GHG emissions. The climate measures that are incorporated in this master thesis are choice of vehicle and its fuel type, optimum route, optimum load weight, and eco-driving. The purpose of this thesis is thus to investigate the climate impact of Norconsult's previous, current and future transportation methods, and to analyze the possibilities or obstacles that exist for implementing these climate measures on a larger scale. To determine this, a literature study has been carried out combined with climate calculations according to a life cycle analysis (LCA) methodology. The GHG emission calculations have been carried out for a base scenario, and three scenarios for the alternative transportation methods. The base scenario corresponds to a business as usual scheme, with all transportation of personnel and drilling rigs carried into effect by a heavy truck. The three scenarios with climate measures include transportation of the drilling rig with a heavy truck, and transportation of personnel by car with different drivelines. Norconsult operates on three different mission types based on distance, namely local, regional, and long-distance. Climate calculations have been performed for each scenario as well as the different types of missions that Norconsult executes. The results from the climate calculations reveal that the amount of carbon dioxide equivalents per field survey performed can be 2 to 7 times less when using the alternative transportation methods as opposed to the current standard method.}},
author = {{Huynh, Emily}},
issn = {{1102-3651}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Klimatsmarta transporter - En fallstudie av Norconsults tjänsteresor för geotekniska fältundersökningar}},
year = {{2022}},
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