ELK - Global Emission Inventory - Land Transport Sector, 2019

This dataset contains a global gridded distribution of emissions for the land transport sector as monthly and annual means for year 2019 and has been developed by DLR within the project EmissionsLandKarte (ELK). The methodology is based on a bottom-up approach of country-specific emission factor and fleet databases. Transport performance is calculated for each country based on GDP, motorization rate, and modal share. The spatial disaggregation is based on traffic counts where available, for most of the countries road density and population data are used.
Suggested Data Citation
Data: Ehrenberger, S., Dasgupta, I., Thomsen, N., Hellekes, J., Löber, M., Brinkop, S., Hendricks, J., Schulz, A., Righi, M.: "ELK - Global Emission Inventory - Land Transport Sector, 2019", DLR, 2025. https://doi.org/10.15489/d9dswthdix21
Coverage
Geographic Boundaries
North:	90°
West:	-180.00°
East:	180.00°
South:	-90.00°
Time Period
Start date:	2019-01-01
End date:	2019-12-31
More Information
Keywords:	DLR, Emissions, Land Transport, 2-Wheelers, Buses, Passenger Cars, Heavy Freight Trucks, Light Commercial Vehicles, Rail (freight), Rail (passenger), Global, Monthly, Annual, Black Carbon, Methane, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Hydrocarbons, Dinitrogen Oxide, Ammonia, Non-Methane Hydrocarbons, Nitrogen Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, Organic Carbon, Particulate Matter, Particle Number, Sulphur Dioxide, opendata
Contact:	simone.ehrenberger@dlr.de, mattia.righi@dlr.de
Access / Use Restriction:	License
Data Use Guidelines	Creative Commons BY 4.0
Links
Mission / Project Information
Project information	https://www.dlr.de/en/pa/latest/news/2025/dlr-impulse-project-elk-mapping-the-national-regional-and-global-emissions-of-transport DLR website
DOI (of Dataset)	https://doi.org/10.15489/d9dswthdix21 Digital Object Identifier
Downloading Data
HTTP Download	https://download.geoservice.dlr.de/ELK/files/global/land_transport/ ELK Global Emission Inventory