Open AccessCarbon Dioxide Mitigation Benefit of High-Speed Railway in Terms of Carbon Tax
Author(s) -
Yanbing Fu,
Zhang Su-fen,
Meiquan Xie,
Shuping Li,
Huang Ze-lin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
advances in mechanical engineering/advances in mechanical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.318
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1687-8140
pISSN - 1687-8132
DOI - 10.1155/2013/973070
Subject(s) - carbon dioxide , environmental science , carbon tax , life cycle assessment , greenhouse gas , environmental engineering , economics , chemistry , production (economics) , organic chemistry , ecology , biology , macroeconomics
This paper calculates the carbon dioxide mitigation benefit of high-speed railway based on the carbon dioxide tax policy. We define the carbon dioxide emission system boundary for high-speed railway in its whole life cycle and estimate the life cycle carbon dioxide inventories during its construction, application, and recovery stages. And then we establish a theoretical model to calculate the life cycle carbon dioxide mitigation quantity for high-speed railway when compared with road transport and then calculate its carbon dioxide mitigation benefit. The numerical example shows that the carbon dioxide mitigation benefit of high-speed railway is better than that of road transport from the whole life cycle perspective