Calculating the difference in environmental impact and costs between
car and train is now possible thanks to Green
Train.

Every day 670,000 travellers choose to use
Trenord trains rather than the car to get around
Lombardy, helping to prevent the release of large quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere. And to help raise travellers' awareness of these issues, on the occasion of Sustainable Mobility Week (16 to 22 September), Trenord is promoting the new Green Train feature, accessible from the website www.trenord.it, developed in collaboration with LifeGate, advisor and network for sustainable development.

With this tool, travellers will be able
to quantify, through a simple car-train comparison,
the greenhouse gas savings (kg of CO2 emitted) generated
by their journey and the cost of a train trip compared
to the same route by car.

When searching for a train on the website trenord.it, in addition to results relating to timetable, journey time, online purchase and ticket price, clicking on the small green leaf icon will also provide information on CO2 emissions saved and a cost comparison. For example, a commuter who travels the Milan–Brescia route daily by train rather than by car produces, over the course of a year, 1,800 kg less CO2 than by car — equivalent to the CO2 generated by the life cycle of over 6,000 plastic bottles, or that absorbed in one year by a forest of over 2,300 sq m.

The system also highlights the savings in economic terms compared to private transport; net of parking costs, the congestion charge and any fines, on the same route, the commuter who chooses the train for the Milan–Brescia route saves over 6,000 euros a year (a figure calculated on the per-kilometre costs indicated in the ACI 2012 tables and inclusive of running costs, maintenance, tyre wear, the third-party liability insurance premium, etc.).

Impressive figures, when multiplied by the number of
travellers who choose the train every day, which highlight how even the "simple" choice of mode of transport can have significant environmental and economic knock-on effects. From the "Green Train" calculator, it is also possible to continue one's green journey by discovering, with a single click, the environmental impact of one's daily lifestyle, thanks to a direct link from the Trenord website to the CO2 calculator on lifegate.it