L'EcoComparateur: SNCF's CO2 calculator for your travel
SNCF, the public French railways company, has - no surprise - a website dedicated to travel. The interesting feature on this website is that it calculates how much CO2 your trip produces depending on the transport method you choose, giving you the choice between plane (including low-cost companies), train and private car.
For instance, a trip from Paris to Nice shows that the trip by train costs 177.40 EUR, takes 6 hours 45 minutes and a carbon index of 10. The same trip by air shows a cost of 209.98 EUR, it takes 1 hour 35 minutes and has an index of 206. Finally, making the same trip with a car costs 322.21 EUR, it takes almost 9 hours and has a carbon index of 373.
The carbon index indicator is calculated by the average passenger CO2 production figures per km, multipled by 2 and then by the distance (you can read the rules here).
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[Source: SCNF]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
aimless 6:59AM (1/14/2008)
Sure, when they use nukes to power their trains, they can claim nice CO2 numbers.
As soon as we get a feasible fuel cell, we too can power our vehicle with nukes. ( Hydrogen is NOT the power source, its only the carrier. )
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JS 10:38PM (1/18/2008)
Dude - it's SNCF, not SCNF. Surely you should know that if you looked at the web site. You got the link right, after all.
(Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français: roughly, Société = company, Nationale = national, des = of, Chemins de fer= railway, Français = French, or in English word order: French National Railway Company).
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