Location: GLO - Global
In this market, default transport model and expert judgement was used to develop product specific transport distance estimations.
The default transport distances are built on a generic model which assigns the transport distances based on the ISIC code. This approach is, especially in case of fruits and vegetables, rather coarse. So in a certain cases expert judgement is used to adjust the default distances.

The transport distances and associated impacts presented in the markets represents the average scenario for given geography. In case of fruits and vegetables the final impact at the consumer vary a lot depending on whether the food is consumed near the producer or far. The average impact of, for example, banana is overestimated if the consumer is present in Brazil and it is heavily underestimated is the consumer is present in Europe. The markets are modelled so, that editing to model concrete scenario is possible and easy.

Fruits and vegetables are traded all over the world on an increasing scale.
It is assumed, that all aubergines which are transported are being transported by infrastructure equipped for transport of goods in need of atmosphere control.

The recomended conditions for transport of aubergines are (Hamburg Sud, 2013, Stay cool, We care);

temperature: +8 to +12 °C
ventilation: 10 to 15 m3/h
humidity (relative): 90 to 95 %
approximate shelf life (in ambient air): 1 to 2 weeks
Undefined unit processes (UPRs) are the unlinked, multi-product activity datasets that form the basis for all of the system models available in the ecoinvent database. This is the way the datasets are obtained and entered into the database by the data providers. These activity datasets are useful for investigating the environmental impacts of a specific activity (gate-to-gate), without regard to its upstream or downstream impacts.