CLIC Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection

Trucks and lorries

Electrical equipment

Reference product Electrical equipment RER

Superseded Version 1.0.0

Stable dataset identity electrical-equipment

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Description

Roadside protective relay/fuse electrical-equipment material set perkilometre, represented by57kg low-alloy steel plus57kg metal working. Source technical life40years. This simplified steel-only proxy is not a complete converter/substation design or verified electrical nameplate rating. Superseded historical record; preserve current published revisions.

Schulte and Ny's2018 source study combines the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development/strategicLCA with selected impact-hotspot quantification using SimaPro8.2,ecoinvent3.2 allocation cut-off, and ReCiPe2008 hierarchist midpoint/endpoint. Europe is the study reference, with European/Nordic/wind/coal propulsion-electricity scenarios; it is not an instruction to change archived supplier regions or CLIC background. Freight functional unit is1tkm; source study is explicitly not a complete detailed inventory. Its raw-material/production/use scope excludes other phases and does not make these component manufacturing recipes complete vehicle transport systems.

Dataset details

Classification, keywords, bookmarks and download counts.

Classification
Trucks and lorries (transport/road/trucks)
Bookmarks
0
Raw file downloads
0
Generated export downloads
0

Classification path: Transport > Road transport > Trucks and lorries

Keywords

  • road transport
  • trucks and lorries

Bookmarking is available only on the latest published dataset record.

Metadata & sources Methods, scope, reference years, publications, contributors, projects and funding.

Source

Source documentation, background profiles and references.

Scientific journal publication

Schulte,J.,&Ny,H.(2018). Electric Road Systems: Strategic Stepping Stone on the Way towards Sustainable Freight Transport? Sustainability,10(4),1148. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041148

Background database
ecoinvent / 3.8
Background system model
cut-off
Biosphere database
ecoinvent / 3.8

These are the stored source profiles for this version. Foreground methodology is recorded in Scientific metadata.

External references

Scientific metadata

Reference years, modelling and allocation methods, contributors, publications, projects and funding.

Declarations describe this version's foreground inventory. Missing information is not evidence of a particular allocation method or data origin.

Source publication year
2018
Inventory reference year
Not specified
Foreground modelling approach
Attributional
Allocated product inventory
Not specified
Allocation or multifunctionality treatment
Not specified
Inventory contributions
Not specified
Projects
Not specified
Funding
Not specified
Methodology notes
Schulte and Ny's2018 source study combines the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development/strategicLCA with selected impact-hotspot quantification using SimaPro8.2,ecoinvent3.2 allocation cut-off, and ReCiPe2008 hierarchist midpoint/endpoint. Europe is the study reference, with European/Nordic/wind/coal propulsion-electricity scenarios; it is not an instruction to change archived supplier regions or CLIC background. Freight functional unit is1tkm; source study is explicitly not a complete detailed inventory. Its raw-material/production/use scope excludes other phases and does not make these component manufacturing recipes complete vehicle transport systems. Publication2018, source SimaPro8.2/ecoinvent3.2, historical import and later premise compilation are distinct; original_software explicitly names the source study only.
System boundary
Roadside protective relay/fuse electrical-equipment material set perkilometre, represented by57kg low-alloy steel plus57kg metal working. Source technical life40years. This simplified steel-only proxy is not a complete converter/substation design or verified electrical nameplate rating. Superseded historical record; preserve current published revisions. Schulte and Ny's2018 source study combines the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development/strategicLCA with selected impact-hotspot quantification using SimaPro8.2,ecoinvent3.2 allocation cut-off, and ReCiPe2008 hierarchist midpoint/endpoint. Europe is the study reference, with European/Nordic/wind/coal propulsion-electricity scenarios; it is not an instruction to change archived supplier regions or CLIC background. Freight functional unit is1tkm; source study is explicitly not a complete detailed inventory. Its raw-material/production/use scope excludes other phases and does not make these component manufacturing recipes complete vehicle transport systems.
Technology description
Roadside protective relay/fuse electrical-equipment material set perkilometre, represented by57kg low-alloy steel plus57kg metal working. Source technical life40years. This simplified steel-only proxy is not a complete converter/substation design or verified electrical nameplate rating. Superseded historical record; preserve current published revisions.
Use limitations
Table6 page9 contains simplified material use perkm of conductive overhead electric-road infrastructure. CLIC unit-component outputs are sets of material/service demand for that kilometre, not one physical cable, mast, shelter or transformer. Overhead lines are already labelled double in the source. Lane-km, road-km, paired conductors and both directions are not interchangeable; no extra factor of2 inferred.
Cable total363kgAl+121kgCu+216kgPE=700kg matches current generic cable mass, but its provider composition, insulation and fabrication need verification. Mast274kg composite equals122kgPE+152kgfiberglass numerically, but the current provider is glass-reinforced polyamide. Its matrix/reinforcement proportions and the chromium-steel proxy for ungraded source steel7752kg are not source-equivalent by mass alone. No guessed polymer/steel replacement provider is proposed.
Transformer143kg equals101kgsteel+42kgcopper across five printed100/50/30/16/5kVA voltage1/0.4kV classes perkm. Current provider is high-voltage transformer mass; not proof of source voltage class, insulation, losses or five physical devices. Source perkm materials must not be interpreted as perdevice masses or summed201kVA installed capacity.
Source lives are20years for barriers,50 for masts/sheds and40 for cables, overhead lines, electrical equipment and transformer classes. CLIC catenary assembly is a single purchase of each component set perkm, with40year metadata. Construction batch can be valid; whole-life service needs explicit replacement/allocation convention. Continuous40/50 allocation differs from one initial discrete50year purchase;20year barrier could require two purchases only under a40year renewal-inclusive service. Do not independently multiply an input or change the40year assembly life.
Source study functional unit is freighttkm, whereas the only archived catenary callers are two trolleybus datasets in passenger-km. Both use8.33e-9km/person-km despite stated10 and19 passengers, implying8.33e-8 and1.5827e-7km/vehicle-km respectively. This is a dimensional comparison, not a proof of error or a passenger/freight conversion. Recover corridor utilization, traffic sharing and lane/direction assumptions before rescaling callers.
Source catenary-friction10kgCu/km/year is a railway-derived use-phase assumption acknowledged as uncertain for ERS. It is absent as a direct flow in these manufacturing records. Do not add lifetime400kg copper emissions to a one-time manufacturing recipe; verify operation, emissions compartments and replenishment ownership in callers. Source extraction/production/use assessment excludes other phases; no end-of-life credit, full waste modelling or whole-life certification inferred.
Printed barrier5500kgconcrete becomes2.291666667m3 using compiler2400kg/m3 density. Matching this conversion does not verify concrete grade or source measured density. Forming services in masts/steel/copper records are additional processing, not extra embodied mass. Component source inventories are simplified expert-adjusted1000V railway proxies, not measured road-system bills of materials.
All eight component blocks are present in pinned lci-buses.xlsx and absent from pinned lci-trucks.xlsx. Two current records retain historical truck-file3.7import annotations and checksum0b39c631...; that older workbook has not been recovered or proven by the later bus-copy match. Preserve historical source annotation and current CLIC3.8background; source2018ecoinvent3.2cutoff, historical3.7import and later2026native copy are different stages.
Primary PDF page1 and Crossref/Crossmark establish JeskoSchulte and HenrikNy, publication11April2018 and their publisher-deposited ORCIDs. BTH/Swedish Blekingetekniskahögskola/acronymBTH map to0093a8w51; the department remains within that parent. MiljögiraffKB and PärLindman supported/verified the source model, while SvenBorén contributed discussions; these acknowledgments are not source byline authorship, CLIC inventory contribution, funding or project identity.
The PDF has no named funding award or named project. Generic sponsor non-involvement language does not identify a funder or prove there was no funding. SwedishTransportAdministration/Uppenberg references are upstream data sources, not automatically funders. No grant, institutional funding, project record or author-to-CLIC compiler attribution added.
Original PDF andTable6 recovered; no separate supplemental LCI recovered. Publisher HTML/XML/notes/s1 accesses returned403 and one guessed ZIP path returned404. Those failures do not prove absence of supplements or revision history. Upstream2010IVLreportB1943 probes failed and2012Uppenberg report was not located; primary paper's references establish ancestry only. Crossmark is current and scoped correction/erratum/amendment/retraction queries locate no authoritative notice; not exhaustive absence proof.
Data origins
Literature
Other fields not yet completed (7)

Data period start year, Data period end year, Valid until year, Multifunctionality applicable, Process type, Included life cycle stages, Intended application

Publications (1)
Citation
Schulte,J.,&Ny,H.(2018). Electric Road Systems: Strategic Stepping Stone on the Way towards Sustainable Freight Transport? Sustainability,10(4),1148. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041148
Title
Electric Road Systems: Strategic Stepping Stone on the Way towards Sustainable Freight Transport?
Doi
10.3390/su10041148
Url
https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041148
Source type
Scientific journal
Publication year
2018
Relation
Primary source
Authors
Jesko Schulte · 0000-0003-2563-8273; Henrik Ny · 0000-0001-5116-5524
Evidence and qualifications (6)
Target field
publications
Origin
Source import
Source reference
Existing published CLIC inventory documentation
Source location
source
Qualification
Append/deduplicate these references within this version. Preserve original_citation/original_doi and reconcile any existing primary source. Model ancestry is not automatically inventory authorship.
Target field
publications
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
https://api.crossref.org/works/10.3390%2Fsu10041148
Source location
Publisher-deposited registry /message/title, /message/published and /message/author
Qualification
Append/deduplicate these references within this version. Preserve original_citation/original_doi and reconcile any existing primary source. Model ancestry is not automatically inventory authorship.
Target field
data_origins
Origin
Source import
Source reference
Existing published CLIC inventory documentation
Source location
source
Qualification
Documented inputs to this compilation/model, not newly measured data. Omitted tags remain unspecified. Literature denotes cited inventory sources.
Target field
publications
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041148
Source location
Page1; Crossref/Crossmark authors and2018date
Qualification
Ordered Schulte/Ny byline and publisher-deposited ORCIDs; publication year is not automatically inventoryreferenceyear. Article1148 has16pages; special-issue/book date does not replace11April2018.
Target field
methodology_notes
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/sustainability/sustainability-10-01148/article_deploy/sustainability-10-01148.pdf
Source location
Sections3.2/4.2 andTable6 page9; source bbox coordinates
Qualification
Roadside protective relay/fuse electrical-equipment material set perkilometre, represented by57kg low-alloy steel plus57kg metal working. Source technical life40years. This simplified steel-only proxy is not a complete converter/substation design or verified electrical nameplate rating. Superseded historical record; preserve current published revisions. Source-specific technical lives are metadata proposals only; no automatic replacement, provider or transport allocation change.
Target field
publications
Origin
Editor verification
Source reference
https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/0093a8w51
Source location
Page1 affiliation; ROR exact BTH match
Qualification
Historical department belongs to BTH0093a8w51. Miljögiraff/PärLindman supported/verified the source model and SvenBorén is acknowledged; no byline authors, CLIC contributors, named funders or projects inferred.
Technology characterization Scale, utilization, production, lifetime, technology readiness and representativeness.
Commercial maturity stage
Early commercial
Design capacity
Not provided
Design capacity unit
Not provided
Capacity factor
Not provided
Annual production volume
Not provided
Annual production volume unit
Not provided
Annual production volume year
Not provided
Plant lifetime
40 years
TRL scale Higher is more mature. 9: routine commercial deployment 8: commercial, but still niche or scaling 7: first-commercial or advanced demonstration 6: engineering-scale demonstration 5: pilot or large prototype 4: bench or lab validated 3: research-stage concept Technology readiness level
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: strong market- or operating-data basis 2: commercially plausible, but still somewhat specific 3: partly representative, with modelling or adaptation bias 4: pilot, proxy-based, scaled-up, or prospective 5: weak representation of the real technology state Technological representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: geography matches the claimed scope well 2: regionally credible, but broader or less exact 3: generic regional or global proxy 4: weak proxy or clear geographic mismatch 5: geography is effectively unsupported Geographical representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: current for that technology class 2: slightly dated, but still good 3: dated enough to need caution 4: stale, pilot-era, or prospective relative to current practice 5: clearly not representative of the current state Temporal representativeness

Missing exchange uncertainty generation: Not requested

Representativeness scores use a 1–5 scale when provided. Lower scores indicate a closer fit to the modeled technology, geography, or time period.

Inventory & impacts 3 exchanges · exchange table, supply-chain graph and environmental screening.

Precalculated screening profile

Environmental impacts

Results per unit, using UVEK 2025 and the ecoinvent 3.10 biosphere. Exchange rows are shaded from green to red by relative contribution to the selected indicator.

Climate change 210.081 kg CO2-Eq / unit
Screening result

This screening result uses Brightpath mappings from the source background to UVEK 2025; mapped suppliers are not claims of scientific equivalence.

Show all 16 indicator totals
Acidification 0.569997 mol H+-Eq / unit
Climate change 210.081 kg CO2-Eq / unit
Freshwater ecotoxicity 603.822 CTUe / unit
Freshwater eutrophication 0.0817367 kg P-Eq / unit
Marine eutrophication 0.142775 kg N-Eq / unit
Terrestrial eutrophication 1.38389 mol N-Eq / unit
Human toxicity, cancer 5.5016e-07 CTUh / unit
Human toxicity, non-cancer 3.9956e-06 CTUh / unit
Ionising radiation 56.1886 kBq U235-Eq / unit
Land use 832.919 dimensionless / unit
Ozone depletion 3.7494e-06 kg CFC-11-Eq / unit
Particulate matter 1.1080e-05 disease incidence / unit
Photochemical ozone formation 0.580004 kg NMVOC-Eq / unit
Resource use, fossils 2275.08 MJ, net calorific value / unit
Resource use, minerals and metals 0.00144133 kg Sb-Eq / unit
Water use 2810.94 m3 world Eq deprived / unit
Calculation details

Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact 4e70d56a85b1 · calculated 2026-09-30 14:14 UTC. These screening results do not replace a reviewed comparative LCA.

Dataset contents

Reference flows, emissions, technosphere inputs, and natural resources in this published snapshot.

Outputs

Reference flow 1 row Reference production exchanges extracted from the uploaded inventory.
Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
Electrical equipment
RER
Electrical equipment
1
unit
Metadata (1)
Tag
other
 Reference flow

Inputs

Technosphere inputs 2 rows Linked foreground or background product inputs used by this dataset.
Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
market for steel, low-alloyed
GLO
steel, low-alloyed
57
kilogram
Metadata (1)
Tag
other
121.818 kg CO2-Eq / unit 58.0% of total
BAFU:2025
metal working, average for steel product manufacturing
RER
metal working, average for steel product manufacturing
57
kilogram
Metadata (1)
Tag
other
88.2624 kg CO2-Eq / unit 42.0% of total
BAFU:2025
Parameters 0 source definitions · values, formulas and uncertainty.

Read-only definitions preserved with this inventory version. Values are supplied by the source; CLIC does not evaluate formulas or recalculate exchange amounts and impact scores from them.

No parameter definitions were supplied with this inventory snapshot.

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  1. Version 1.0.0
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  2. Version 1.0.1
    Published

    Standardizes the electrical equipment labels and supplier-reference documentation while retaining its foreground quantities and reference service.

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Version 1.0.1 2026-11-03 Standardizes the electrical equipment labels and supplier-reference documentation while retaining its foreground quantities and reference service. Open version
Version 1.0.0 Superseded Published 2026-07-15 First published inventory; no earlier version is available for comparison. Current view
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