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The authors would like to thank Pablo Perez de Villar for providing data from the Spanish road inventory and Luis Gonzaga Garcia for his helpful comments on the use of GIS tools. N.S. wishes to thank the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) for the research fellowship that allowed her to develop this research work.

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Towards Low-Carbon Interurban Road Strategies: Identifying Hot Spots Road Corridors in Spain

Publicated to:Sustainability. 10 (11): - 2018-10-31 10(11), DOI: 10.3390/su10113963

Authors: Sobrino, Natalia; Monzon, Andres;

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Univ Politecn Madrid, Transport Res Ctr, TRANSYT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Reducing traffic emissions is key in transport planning and infrastructure management in order to achieve a sustainable transport system. This paper contributes to this topic in two ways. The first step describes a comprehensive methodology for identifying hot spots road segments and corridors with problems of GHG emissions to enable low-carbon actions. The Highway Energy Assessment (HERA) methodology is applied to the national road network of Spain in order to estimate interurban traffic emissions and calculate the emissions index to assess strategies. The results are shown graphically on a GIS, allowing to identify seven corridors with emissions problems comprising 25% of the network and being responsible for 51% of the total GHG emissions in 2012. Inefficient corridors were those with high rates of heavy vehicles, high speeds and steep gradients. The second step consists of the application of a set of strategies to reduce their emissions and their comparison to the reference scenario. The Mediterranean corridor-the most inefficient corridor-was selected to apply a set of abatement strategies. The most effective strategy was speed enforcement for light vehicles. A speed reduction of 10 km/h could produce a 3.5% savings in emissions compared to the reference scenarios, and decrease emissions intensity from 254 gCO(2)eq/veh-km to 246 gCO(2)eq/veh-km.

Keywords
Abatement strategiesClimate changeEmissionsEnergyImpactsLow-carbon road planningMapping ghg emissionsMethodologyQuantificationRoad traffic emissionsSystemTransport

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Sustainability due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2018, it was in position 44/116, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Environmental Studies. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.41, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions May 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-05-10, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 2
  • Scopus: 7
  • OpenCitations: 4
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-10:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 34.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 34 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 36.25.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 6 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/85583/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 49
  • Downloads: 10
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (SOBRINO VAZQUEZ, NATALIA) and Last Author (MONZON DE CACERES, ANDRES).