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<strong>Non</strong>-<strong>road</strong> <strong>fuel</strong> <strong>consumption</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>pollutant</strong> <strong>emissions</strong> FOEN 2008 8<br />

> Summary<br />

Considerable quantities of various air <strong>pollutant</strong>s are produced not only from <strong>road</strong><br />

traffic, but also by a b<strong>road</strong> variety of other motors that are operated in the non-<strong>road</strong><br />

segment. Accurate <strong>and</strong> up-to-date data relating to non-<strong>road</strong> <strong>emissions</strong> in Switzerl<strong>and</strong><br />

are required for a variety of purposes, including the preparation of the annual climate<br />

gas inventory, which Switzerl<strong>and</strong> is obliged to produce within the scope of the Kyoto<br />

Protocol, or as the basis for planning air pollution control measures. The FOEN thus<br />

decided to carry out this study for the purpose of updating the non-<strong>road</strong> <strong>emissions</strong><br />

database that was created in 1996.<br />

Emission sources<br />

The non-<strong>road</strong> segment encompasses all mobile machines <strong>and</strong> appliances that are<br />

equipped with a combustion engine <strong>and</strong> are not intended to transport passengers <strong>and</strong><br />

goods by <strong>road</strong>. For calculation purposes, the various machines <strong>and</strong> appliances of the<br />

non-<strong>road</strong> segment were divided into the following categories:<br />

> Construction machinery<br />

> Industrial machinery<br />

> Agricultural machinery<br />

> Forestry machinery<br />

> Garden-care/hobby appliances<br />

> Marine machinery<br />

> Railway machinery<br />

> Military machinery<br />

The term “non<strong>road</strong>” as used in this report does not refer to all-terrain motor cars (“off<strong>road</strong><br />

vehicles”). It refers solely to mobile machines <strong>and</strong> appliances that are not intended<br />

to transport passengers <strong>and</strong> goods by <strong>road</strong>.<br />

Air <strong>pollutant</strong>s<br />

In this report, the emission levels of the four “classical” air <strong>pollutant</strong>s<br />

> Carbon monoxide (CO)<br />

> Hydrocarbons (HC)<br />

> Nitrogen oxides (NO x )<br />

> Particulate matter (PM)<br />

plus those of one greenhouse gas<br />

> Carbon dioxide (CO 2 )<br />

have been calculated <strong>and</strong> expressed in tonnes per annum (tonnes p.a., t/a).

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