Transport Mapping - Real-Time LCA Docs

Transport covers module A4 — moving materials from the factory gate to the site. Every material you have mapped appears here with the tonnage the model implies; you add the distance and the vehicle type.

Transport page with callouts for the transport progress bar, the haul distance field, the per-material rows, and the row totals. — The Transport page

Transport page with callouts for the transport progress bar, the haul distance field, the per-material rows, and the row totals. — The Transport page

One row per mapped material

Each row shows how many items use the material, the total tonnage, the emission per tonne, and the resulting total. Rows stay empty of emissions until a transport type is set. Expand a row and you get:

Field	What it means
Type	The vehicle and route. Defaults come from the project country’s data — for example Default (Bulk Material (Irish) - Road).
Distance (km)	How far the material travelled to site.
Emission (kg CO₂ eq/t km)	Comes from the chosen transport type.
Total emission per ton	Distance × emission factor.
Total emission	Applied across the tonnage in the project.

Add commits the leg to the material.

The default transport types are set once for the whole project in Settings → Transport (A4). Set them there first and you only need to adjust the exceptions here.

Tracking progress

The % MAPPED bar in the toolbar counts transport, not materials — it tells you how much of the mapped tonnage now has a distance against it. The dashboard’s Mapping overview shows the same figure alongside material progress.