EPE'13 ECCE Europe
15th European Conference
on Power Electronics
and Applications

Please find some examples of transportation from your place to Lille in the table below, which aim to show that taking the plane to come to Lille is not always the best choice. Because using the train not only emits less greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but may be also faster than the plane, when we take into account the checking time (from 30mn to 1 hour) spent at airport, or car.

It is the case for cities as Paris (France), Aachen (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Birmingham and Brighton (United Kingdom). This is not the case for Toulouse (France).

the table consists four parts, and each part is elaborated as below:

1. Departure : your place,
2. Transport : which transport type (train and/or plane and/or car) is used for the journey,
3. CO2 emission (kg) and ratio : CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissions (in kg) for the one-way - journey, based on our own estimation tool. In the case of train used in our journey, it always emits the less, so emissions of other transport types are also computed as a ratio over the emissions by train , e.g. (x10) . Emissions are colored,
4. Duration of the journey from your place to Lille. It includes the time spent between stages, and the checking time both for plane and Eurostar trains. To be more clearly, different colors are used to represent the shortest time (green), a longer time (yellow), or the much longer or longest time (red).

You will have journey details when clicking on the city. Our CO2 equivalent emissions may computed using emission factors provided here.

 At last, please note that this list is not complete yet.