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== Ecologicality of modes of transport == | |||
Sea vessels are basically very ecological even if the transported distance goes into the thousands or tens of thousands of km. | |||
Rail traffic is practically free, at least for heavy cargo, to operate once the huge investment of building a rail network is done. | |||
Trucks consume a lot of fuel, especially for heavy things. Studies have found that the larger the truck is, relatively it consumes more energy. | |||
Airplane is the most unecological way to transport things as the CO2 footprint is very high for aircargo. | |||
== Work that needs to be done re Consumium == | |||
What we need to find to figure out the transportation costs are: | What we need to find to figure out the transportation costs are: | ||
* Usage of fuel/kg/km transported for all transport types | * Usage of fuel/kg/km transported for all transport types | ||
* Database of distances between places. I'm sure the [[logistics]] companies have this information, but are they going to give it to us if we ask is a different question. So if you know of any open content sources to get road/railroad/ship/airtravel distances between places it would be most welcome. We could approach this by finding these distances coutry-by-country and then linking countries together using [[UN/LOCODE]] bordercrossing points as nodes to tie the countries networks together. | * Database of distances between places. I'm sure the [[logistics]] companies have this information, but are they going to give it to us if we ask is a different question. So if you know of any open content sources to get road/railroad/ship/airtravel distances between places it would be most welcome. We could approach this by finding these distances coutry-by-country and then linking countries together using [[UN/LOCODE]] bordercrossing points as nodes to tie the countries networks together. | ||