Nachhaltigkeit & Reporting

Product-oriented Sustainability within the Railway System

Voestalpine Railway Systems GmbH | 2024

Scope

The overarching goal is to support the strategic alignment and product-specific implementation of sustainability criteria within the context of voestalpine Railway Systems. The following key points will be addressed as overarching themes:

  • Strategic alignment of product-specific environmental impact assessments through Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD).Analysis of manufacturer-specific environmental impacts on railway infrastructure operators over the entire product lifecycle.
  • Evaluation of product and innovation sustainability within a holistic context, including a comparison of assessment methodologies (e.g., LCA and EPD).Presentation and communication of LCA results to ensure clarity and transparency.
  • Targeted and structured preparation and management of data for calculating and transparently documenting environmental impacts.

Results

In 2024, we worked on finalizing the following topics:

  • EPD-Watching Tool based on PowerBI in order to compare various Key Performance Indicators of publicly available Environmental Product Declarations in the railway system.
  • Setting up a Turnout Calculator to aggregate carbon emissions of complete turnout systems including the various supply chains and production locations.
  • SWOT-Analyses of different market solutions for calculation, management and display of carbon emissions in production and supply chains.
  • Calculation of GHG-emissions of turnouts over the whole life cycle including construction and maintenance of specific components.

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Shaping a sustainable future of railways together.

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