Integrating FuelSave, conceived by Ramboll, within the ORIS platform makes life cycle analysis more potent and concrete. It marks a significant step toward decarbonising the linear infrastructure industry.
For road designers, urban planners, and public authorities, this represents a further step toward drastically reducing carbon emissions and promoting road sustainability.
What is FuelSave?
Ramboll is an innovative leader in sustainable engineering. As such, it has created FuelSave, a digital solution that focuses on assessing the use phase of road infrastructure. It measures traffic's impact on carbon emissions throughout the road's lifecycle.
What matters here is to understand that the use phase of road infrastructure accounts for 70-80% of a road’s total emissions.
This means FuelSave contributes significantly to the overall goal of decarbonisation such as:
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- Data-Driven Decision Making: The solution provides a detailed analysis of energy use, CO2 emissions, and fuel costs for multiple design options, enabling more sustainable design choices.
- Future-Proofing: FuelSave allows for simulations with different traffic forecasts and comparisons of alternatives from a sustainability perspective, helping to address long-term decarbonisation goals.
- Sector-Wide Impact: FuelSave targets road transportation, responsible for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide., It addresses a critical area for decarbonisation efforts.
Through these features, FuelSave empowers decision-makers with comprehensive tools to assess, mitigate, and reduce road carbon emissions across the entire lifecycle of infrastructure projects, contributing significantly to decarbonisation efforts in the transportation sector.
How does FuelSave enhance Life Cycle Analysis within the ORIS platform?
The integration of FuelSave into the ORIS platform significantly enhances Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) capabilities in several ways:
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- Comprehensive LCA Coverage: ORIS will now provide a holistic carbon emissions assessment tool that covers the entire lifecycle of road projects, from construction to use phase with traffic emissions.
- Enhanced Construction Phase Analysis: The integration improves transportation analysis during the construction phase by including slope and speed components (A2 & A4).
- Traffic Management Emissions: It enables the assessment of traffic management and congestion emissions during the construction phase (A5).
- Detailed Use Phase Calculations: ORIS will now deliver emissions calculations for the use phase, considering specific road geometry, traffic evolution, and its effect on carbon emissions.
This integration transforms ORIS into a unique platform capable of measuring road carbon emissions more holistically. It covers embedded carbon at construction, vehicle emissions, and traffic-related emissions throughout the entire lifecycle of road infrastructure projects.
What does this integration mean for our customers?
For ORIS' customers, the integration of FuelSave within the ORIS platform means:
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- Comprehensive Lifecycle Analysis: Customers can access a more holistic carbon emissions assessment tool that covers the entire lifecycle of road projects, from construction to traffic emissions.
- Enhanced Sustainability Planning: The integration of FuelSave allows customers to anticipate and reduce the carbon impact of road traffic early in the project lifecycle.
- More Detailed Emissions Calculations: Customers can now calculate traffic emissions, energy use, and fuel costs for multiple design options from a lifecycle perspective.
- Future-Oriented Simulations: The platform enables simulations with different traffic forecasts, allowing customers to compare alternatives from a sustainability perspective.
- Expanded Carbon Models: ORIS's carbon models now include improved transportation analysis, assessment of emissions related to traffic management during construction, and calculations for use phase emissions.
- User-Friendly Tools: Customers will benefit from simple, self-service tools that contribute to decarbonisation efforts in the transportation sector.
ORIS becomes a powerhouse for measuring and optimising infrastructure road schemes in the design, construction, and use phases.