Methods and Systems for Vehicle Emission Reporting

• US 20110099022A1
• Filed: 10/23/2010
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Andrzej Stochniol
• Original Assignee: Andrzej Stochniol
• Inventors: Stochniol, Andrzej
• Application Number:
  US12/910,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20110099022A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

Systems and methods for reporting emissions from vehicles operating in and between several areas or countries are provided. In particular, an embodiment of the present invention is a method for reporting emissions from vehicles of a type, from a given activity in and between several areas, over a period of time, each vehicle associated with a fuel entity, the method comprising: providing an electronic registry (200) through which data is recorded and managed, registering each fuel entity as a fleet (400), obtaining and recording fuel consumption for each vehicle from the fleets (420), calculating attributed fuel consumption for an area, in relation to a total of fuel consumption and a predetermined usage-to-area attribution rule, wherein the rule is unrelated to both the amount of fuel purchased and fuel consumed at the area (440), optionally, deriving attributed emissions from attributed fuel consumption (460), and reporting attributed fuel consumption or attributed emissions, for at least one area (480).

Claims

1. A method for reporting emissions from vehicles of a type, from an activity in and between a plurality of areas, over a period of time, each vehicle associated with a fuel entity, the method comprising:

(a) providing an electronic registry through which data is recorded and managed,

(b) registering each said fuel entity as a fleet,

(c) obtaining and recording fuel consumption for substantially each vehicle of said vehicles, for said activity over said period of time, wherein said fuel consumption is obtained from said fleets,

(d) calculating attributed fuel consumption, for at least one area of said plurality of areas, in relation to a total of said fuel consumption and a predetermined usage-to-area attribution rule, wherein said rule is unrelated to both the amount of fuel purchased and fuel consumed at said area,

(e) optionally, deriving attributed emissions from corresponding said attributed fuel consumption, and deriving total emissions from said total fuel consumption,

(f) producing a report containing a result, for at least one area of said plurality areas, wherein said result is selected from the group consisting of {said attributed fuel consumption, and said attributed emissions},

whereby the emissions from said vehicles are equitably apportioned to said plurality of areas accordingly to said usage-to-area attribution rule, and said attributed emissions or said attributed fuel consumption are reported for at least one area, thereby enabling their incorporation in the area-by-area overall emission reporting, and furthermore enabling differentiated emission reduction schemes, including rebates to areas with low responsibilities for and capabilities to reduce emissions.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said vehicles comprise vehicles selected from the group consisting of {sea going ships of 400 gross tonnage and over, aircraft with a maximum take-off mass greater than 5,700 kg} and said fuel entities are selected from the group consisting of {operators of said vehicles, managers of said vehicles, said vehicles, fuel suppliers for said vehicles, entities responsible for compliance of said vehicles}.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein in (d) said usage-to-area attribution rule is selected from the group consisting of {an area'"'"'s share of imports, share of goods carried to an area, share of passengers resident in and traveling to and from an area, share of passengers carried resident in or citizen of an area}.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said type is a selected type of a plurality of types, further comprising the step of:

(g) consolidating said report with other reports corresponding to other types in said plurality of types.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said type is a selected type of one or more types, said activity is a selected activity of one or more activities, further comprising the step of:

(g) consolidating said report with other reports corresponding to other types in said one or more types and other activities in said one or more activities.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said vehicles are aircraft of a predetermined size, said activity is a selected activity of two activities, international flights and domestic flights, further comprising the step of (g) consolidating said report with the other report corresponding to the other activity in said two activities, and wherein for said domestic flights (c) further comprises obtaining fuel consumption per area, and in (d) calculating said attributed fuel consumption is performed by summing up said fuel consumption per area, from all said fleets, for said at least one selected area.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said vehicles are civil aircraft of a predetermined size, each of said plurality of areas is a country or a group of countries, said activity comprises a domestic activity defined by domestic flights and an international activity defined by international flights, said attributed fuel consumption comprises two parts, an international part and a domestic part, and wherein said predetermined usage-to-area attribution rule comprises an international rule for said international part and a domestic rule for said domestic part, and said domestic rule is related to an area share of total domestic activities and a total domestic share of total activities, wherein said activities are measured in ton-kilometers selected from the group consisting of {revenue ton-kilometers, available ton-kilometers}.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(g) for each of said fleets, obtaining and recording a fee, for said period of time, wherein said fee relates to corresponding said emissions,

(h) paying out an attributed rebate for at least one of said selected areas, wherein said attributed rebate is related to corresponding said attributed emissions and optionally to a corresponding predetermined rebate rate.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(g) for each of said fleets, obtaining and recording a fee, for said period of time, wherein said fee relates to corresponding said emissions, the step comprising;

(i) optionally, obtaining and recording one or more prepayments for said fee,

(ii) obtaining and recording a true-up fee, wherein said true-up fee is determined in relation to corresponding said emissions and said prepayments,

(h) paying out an attributed rebate to at least one of said selected areas, wherein said attributed rebate is related to corresponding said attributed emissions and optionally to a corresponding predetermined rebate rate.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(g) for each of said fleets, obtaining and recording a fee, for said period of time, wherein said fee relates to corresponding said emissions and an emission price, wherein said emission price is established at least partly in relation to a predetermined emission reduction goal,

(h) paying out an attributed rebate to at least one of said selected areas, wherein said attributed rebate is related to corresponding said attributed emissions and optionally to a corresponding predetermined rebate rate.

11. A system for reporting emissions from vehicles, from an activity in and between a plurality of areas, over a period of time, each vehicle of a type and associated with a fuel entity, the system comprising:

(a) an electronic registry through which data is recorded and managed,

(b) means for registering each fuel entity as a fleet,

(c) means for obtaining and recording fuel consumption, for substantially each vehicle of said vehicles, for said activity over said period of time, wherein said fuel consumption is obtained through said fleets,

(d) means for calculating attributed fuel consumption, for at least one area of said plurality of areas, in relation to a total of said fuel consumption and a predetermined usage-to-area attribution rule, wherein said rule is unrelated to both the amount of fuel purchased and fuel consumed at said area,

(e) means for optionally, deriving attributed emissions from corresponding said attributed fuel consumption, and for deriving total emissions from said total fuel consumption,

(f) means for producing a report containing a result, for at least one area of said plurality of areas, wherein said result is selected from the group consisting of {said attributed fuel consumption, and said attributed emissions},

whereby the emissions from said vehicles are equitably apportioned to said plurality of areas accordingly to said usage-to-area attribution rule, and said attributed emissions or said attributed fuel consumption are reported for at least one area, thereby enabling their incorporation in the area-by-area overall emission reporting, and furthermore enabling differentiated emission reduction schemes, including rebates to areas with low responsibilities for and capabilities to reduce emissions.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein said vehicles comprise vehicles selected from the group consisting of {sea going ships of 400 gross tonnage and over, aircraft with a maximum take-off mass greater than 5,700 kg}, and said fuel entities are selected from the group consisting of {operators of said vehicles, managers of said vehicles, said vehicles, fuel suppliers for said vehicles, entities responsible for compliance of said vehicles}.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein said emissions are carbon dioxide emissions, said vehicles are sea going ships of a predetermined size, said type is a selected type of a plurality of types selected from the group consisting of {bulk carrier, tanker, general cargo ship, container ship, combination cargo ship, vehicle carrier-ferry, passenger ship}, further comprising:

(g) means for consolidating said report with other reports corresponding to other types in said plurality of types.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein said type is a selected type of one or more types, said activity is a selected activity of one or more activities, further comprising:

(g) means for consolidating said report with other reports corresponding to other types in said one or more types and other activities in said one or more activities.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein said emissions are carbon dioxide emissions, said vehicles are sea going ships of 400 gross tonnage and over, said fuel entity is the vehicle itself, said plurality of areas comprises at least 50 countries, each of said countries being one of said areas, and wherein in (d) said predetermined usage-to-area attribution rule is defined by a country'"'"'s share of imports.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the emissions are carbon dioxide emissions, said vehicles comprise aircraft flying internationally with a maximum take-off mass greater than 5,700 kg, said activity is any activity not defined as excluded activities, said fuel entity is the aircraft operator, said plurality of areas comprises at least 50 countries, each of said countries being one of said areas, said fuel consumption is fuel used for international flights, excluding fuel used for domestic flights, and wherein in (d) said predetermined usage-to-area attribution rule is defined by a country'"'"'s share of imports.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein said activity is a selected activity of two types, an international activity and a domestic activity, further comprising:

(g) means for consolidating said report with the other report corresponding to the other type in said two activities, and wherein for said domestic activity (c) further comprises means for obtaining fuel consumption per area, and in (d) means for calculating said attributed fuel consumption comprise means for summing up said fuel consumption per area, from all said fleets.

18. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

(g) means for obtaining and recording a fee, for each of said fleets, for said period of time, wherein said fee relates to corresponding said emissions and an efficiency index,

(h) means for paying out an attributed rebate to at least one of said selected areas, wherein said attributed rebate is related to corresponding said attributed emissions and optionally to a corresponding predetermined rebate rate.

19. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

(g) means for obtaining and recording a fee, for said period of time, for each of said fleets, wherein said fee relates to corresponding emissions and an emission price, said emission price being linked to one or more market emission prices selected from the group consisting of {a rolling average of global market price for emissions, a rolling average of market price for emissions established by one or more economy-wide emission reduction schemes, a predetermined emission price floor, a predetermined emission price ceiling},

(h) means for paying out an attributed rebate to at least one of said selected areas, wherein said attributed rebate is related to corresponding said attributed emissions and optionally to a corresponding predetermined rebate rate.

20. A method for reporting emissions from vehicles selected from the group consisting of {sea going ships of predetermined size, aircraft of predetermined size}, from an activity of international transport between a plurality of countries, over a period of time, each vehicle associated with a fuel entity, the method comprising:

(a) providing an electronic registry through which data is recorded and managed,

(b) registering each said fuel entity as a fleet,

(c) obtaining and recording fuel consumption for substantially each vehicle of said vehicles, for said activity over said period of time, wherein said fuel consumption is obtained from said fleets,

(d) calculating attributed fuel consumption, for at least one country of said plurality of countries, in relation to a total of said fuel consumption and a predetermined usage-to-area attribution rule, wherein said rule is selected from the group consisting of {a country'"'"'s share of seaborne imports, a country'"'"'s share of airborne imports, a country'"'"'s share of imports, share of passengers resident in and traveling to and from an a country},

(e) optionally, deriving attributed emissions from corresponding said attributed fuel consumption, and deriving total emissions from said total fuel consumption,

(f) producing a report containing a result, for at least one country of said plurality countries, wherein said result is selected from the group consisting of {said attributed fuel consumption, and said attributed emissions},

whereby the emissions from said vehicles are equitably apportioned to said plurality of countries accordingly to said usage-to-area attribution rule, and said attributed emissions or said attributed fuel consumption are reported for at least one country, thereby enabling their incorporation in the country-by-country overall emission reporting, and furthermore enabling differentiated emission reduction schemes, including rebates to areas with low responsibilities for and capabilities to reduce emissions.