High Speed Rail - Center for Neighborhood Technology
High Speed Rail - Center for Neighborhood Technology
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<strong>High</strong> <strong>Speed</strong> <strong>Rail</strong> and Greenhouse Gas Emissions – CCAP & CNT<br />
Appendix A<br />
IC-3<br />
The Danish IC-3 is a diesel fuel train system with a top speed of 160 kilometers per hour (99 mph). 37<br />
This profile is much more similar to the high speed rail systems being proposed in corridors around the<br />
U.S. today than other higher speed electricity powered or MagLev train technologies considered here.<br />
The IC-3 uses 2.22 kg diesel per train km, which would generate approximately 0.26 pounds of CO2<br />
(1.2x10 -10 MMTCO2) per passenger mile at 70 percent occupancy. 38 Actual occupancy of this train is<br />
reported at 56 percent, which would increase the per passenger emissions to 0.32 pounds CO2 (1.5x10 -10<br />
MMTCO2) per passenger mile, but as discussed above, we chose to use a consistent occupancy rate of 70<br />
percent among the technologies.<br />
Table A- 4 IC-3 CO2 Emissions Factor<br />
Danish IC-3 Emissions Factor<br />
436.5 kg diesel per train per trip<br />
197 km per trip<br />
2.22 kg diesel per train km<br />
138 seats per train<br />
0.84 grams per ml diesel<br />
0.000264172 gallon per ml<br />
3.18 kg per gallon diesel<br />
0.696 gallon diesel per km<br />
1.609344 km per mile<br />
1.12 gallon diesel per train mile<br />
0.008 gallon diesel per seat mile<br />
22.384 lbs CO2 per gallon diesel<br />
0.18 lbs CO2 per seat mile<br />
0.26 lbs CO2 per pass mile<br />
37 Jørgensen and Sorenson 1997.<br />
38 Jørgensen and Sorenson 1997.<br />
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