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Table 1 Typical internal and external costs for freight transport (ITU 40′) (adapted from [21])

From: Range of technical-economic competitiveness of rail-road combined transport

Cost item

Cost

Internal costs

 croad

Road

0,98

€/km

 ch

Pre/post road haulage

2,51

€/km

 crl

Rail

0,91

€/km

 ct

Terminal operation

48

€/ITU

External costs

 crp

Road pollution

0,16

€/km

 crlp

Rail pollution

0,015

€/km

 ctp

Transhipment pollution

0,113

€/km

 crn

Road noise

0,245

€/km

 crln

Rail noise

0,175

€/km

 crw

Road global warming

0,046

€/km

 crlw

Rail global warming

0,01

€/ITU/km

 ctw

Transhipment global warming

0,083

€/movement