Transport flow

[emmajayne]

Hi, I'm a new user. I'm using ELCD data to model a simple production process and it's going well, but I need some help adding different transportation options to my process. At the moment, to add a transport option to my process, it seems the only way I can do this is choose the input "transport services", and then use 'default provider' to choose the type of transport, eg train, small lorry, cargo ship.

However, I can only add one transport services flow (small lorry, for example) then Open LCA won't recognise my other transport services flows (container ship and rail). However, I can't seem to put all these together under one 'transport' flow, as I need to have different values for each type of transport in 'default provider'.

Can anyone advise me how to add three different transport flows to my process?

many thanks!

[aciroth]

Hi Emma,
openLCA currently allows only one flow one time on input or output, which requires a workaround in your case (and in some other cases when using GaBi-type databases); basically, you can create different transport service flows for different providers and link them then into the process.
Best wishes,
Andreas