Emission factor from UBA (AT)
Average truck HGV (≥ 3.5 t ‒ 40 t) D - Road
Austria · Energy, full life cycle · Any year
Each kilometre one vehicle drives counts as 0.897 kg CO₂e: 0.649 from the fuel it burns, 0.197 for producing and delivering that fuel and 0.0504 for capital goods amortization.
Value per kilometre driven
0.897kgCO₂e/km
Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR5
One value, for any year
UBA (AT) sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2024
Derived by open-climate.ai: the sum of UBA (AT)'s published parts
- LoadHow full the vehicle runs. UBA (AT) does not say which load this factor assumes.
- Not stated
- Vehicle sizeThe vehicle's class, by weight or capacity. UBA (AT) does not say which size this factor assumes.
- Not stated
- Distance bandFlights are priced by distance band, because take-off and climb burn a large share of a short flight's fuel. Road, rail and sea factors apply to a trip of any length.
- Any distance, not banded
- Cabin classA business seat takes more of the cabin than an economy one, so it carries more of the flight's emissions. First class on a long-haul flight counts four times economy.
- Not applicable on the road
- Region
- Austria AT
- Boundary
- Energy, full life cycle
- Data quality
- LowRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0.897 comes from
- Scope 3, cat. 40.64972.4%
- Scope 3, cat. 40.19722%
- Scope 3, cat. 40.05045.6%
Σ 0.897: UBA (AT) prints the three parts separately; open-climate.ai adds them up.
Reporting this kilometre under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 4 0.897
You pay a carrier to bring goods in, or to move them between your own sites. All of it goes in upstream transport.
The factor, standardised
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Transport › Road freight · Austria · per km · Average
Energy, full life cycle · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR5
- BoundaryEnergy, full life cycleFull life-cycle emissions of one unit of energy service (a kWh generated, or a vehicle-, passenger- or tonne-kilometre moved): extraction and delivery of the fuel or electricity, its combustion in the plant or vehicle, and the manufacture of the generating asset or vehicle itself amortized over its lifetime output. Learn more
- Energy, full life cycle
- Fuel supply, fuel combustion and capital goods
- GWP methodWhich IPCC assessment report's warming potentials convert each gas to CO₂e, and over how many years the warming is counted (GWP100: 100 years). Learn more
- IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
- Not on the record; inferred by open-climate.ai
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic CO₂ and land use; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Excl. biogenic CO₂
- Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Low quality · Open licence · Any year
What this number covers
The path of one vehicle-kilometre, from the oil well to the end of the trip.
Fuel production
Extracting, refining and delivering the fuel
IncludedScope 3, cat. 40.197Vehicle operation
Burning the fuel on the road, spread over the average load
IncludedScope 3, cat. 40.649Effect at altitude
Contrails and other warming from burning fuel high up. Flights only.
Not applicable on the roadYour trip
1 km driven. The factor is per vehicle-kilometre.
= 0.897
Outside this boundary
- Roads and depots
Vehicles and infrastructure sit outside every well-to-use factor. Some libraries price building the vehicle as a factor of its own.
Gases in vehicle operation
0.649Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂Biogenic CO₂ and land-use change are left out; fossil CO₂, the other greenhouse gases and methane from biogenic sources are counted. Learn more
- Carbon dioxide (CO₂)0.61494.6%
- Rest, not split by gas Derived by open-climate.ai0.03515.4%
The rest is not split by gas: open-climate.ai works it out as the 0.649 total less the gases UBA (AT) prints.
Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR5 100-year warming potentials; biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon are left out, while methane from biogenic sources is counted.
UBA (AT) splits the fuel burnt by gas; fuel production comes as CO₂e only.
From UBA (AT)'s record to a comparable factor
UBA (AT) publishes the three parts; open-climate.ai added them up to this total. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.
The total and its parts
Use a part on its own when you report the fuel you burn separately from its production; never add a part to the total.
About this factor
From UBA (AT)
Where it applies
Translated from GermanNote: Due to the change in the calculation system, a comparison with previous transport-mode lists is not permissible.Show UBA (AT)'s original (German)
Anmerkung: Wegen der Systemumstellung bei der Berechnung ist ein Vergleich mit vorangegangenen Verkehrsträgerlisten nicht zulässig.Source and licence
- Value
- Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
- Publisher
- Umweltbundesamt GmbH (Austria)
- Published
- 1 May 2026
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Cite this factor
Umweltbundesamt GmbH: Emissionskennzahlen Verkehrsmittel Österreich, aktualisiert Mai 2026. CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/uba_at/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-ubaat-durchschnitt_lkw_snf_35-at-km-transport_lifecycle-1d3bb341/?v=efv1-6055620bd4daa1c50fe57718e70d760c
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