title: Indicator of energy efficiency applied to motorways. A first step: functional unit's LCA creator: González Díaz, María Jesús creator: García Navarro, Justo creator: Martinez Caraballo, Eva creator: Redruello Almandoz, Ignacio creator: Gómez Cuesta, Ana creator: Sánchez Valdivieso, Clara subject: Transport description: The principal aim of the study consists of developing a methodology to calculate the energy associated with a motorway's complete life cycle, obtaining its energy footprint. Energy is consumad by the extraction of raw materials, production of materials, work, etc. and especially by vehicles passing through it. But it can also produce energy from renewable resources by taking advantage of the shoulders, placing solar panels on buildings to operate the motorway, re-using waste of deconstruction, etc. The objective is to evaluate the result of both energies (consumption and insumption) as the balance between the energy consumad through the process and the energy produced by the motorway at all stages of the life cycle (the energy footprint). publisher: E.T.S.I. Agrónomos (UPM) rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ date: 2010 type: info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject type: Presentation at Congress or Conference source: UEP 2010 - Urban Environmental Pollution Conference | UEP 2010 - Urban Environmental Pollution Conference | 20/06/2010-23/06/2010 | Boston, Estados Unidos type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: eng rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess identifier: https://oa.upm.es/46874/