Patent ID: 8498818

Claim:
An emissions calculation system for calculating emissions resulting from transporting a shipment from an origin address to a destination address through a carrier's transportation network, the emissions calculation system comprising at least one computer processor and a memory, said at least one computer processor configured for: receiving at least a portion of shipment parameters associated with a particular shipment, the received shipment parameters comprising an origin address and a destination address for the particular shipment; identifying a transportation route along which the particular shipment is expected to travel from the origin address to the destination address; retrieving one or more emissions factors related to at least one of the shipment parameters, each of the one or more emissions factors being based at least in part on an amount of fuel used during a particular time period by the carrier to transport previously shipped packages along at least a portion of the transportation route; and estimating an amount of emissions resulting from transporting the particular shipment along the at least a portion of the transportation route based at least in part on the one or more retrieved emissions factors and at least a portion of the shipment parameters.