Transport Ecology

As part of Schleswig-Holstein’s eHighway field trial, the environmental impact of the OH system is being researched. The goal is an overall ecological assessment of the system with its positive and negative interrelationships with regard to climate protection, air quality, noise protection, resource consumption, nature conservation and other conceivable ecological effects. These valuations are based on model calculations. In addition to the consumption data determined in the field test, forecast data regarding the electricity mix and the electricity emission factors are taken into account. The overall balance further includes the manufacture of the system (overhead contact line infrastructure and vehicles, production, construction, etc.) in the analysis and thus evaluates the associated resource consumption.

An ecological assessment tool developed in the ENUBA 2 project provides a basis for this. Results already obtained on the environmental impact will be verified using the new measurement results from the field test. For the upcoming holistic environmental assessment, assumptions for the calculation basis were made within the framework of the scientific discourse, with which a comparability of the results from the eHighway research network or from the three field tests can be established.