In order to implement the environmental protection policies and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council and promote the goals of achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in the railway sector, it is necessary to actively carry out carbon emission calculation work for railway logistics bases and identify the main carbon emission sources. Based on the theory of full life cycle assessment, the carbon emissions of railway logistics bases were analyzed and divided into two stages: construction and operation management. The focus was on on-site construction, freight loading and unloading, and operation scenarios, and the object and scope of carbon emission calculation were clarified. Using the emission factor method, this paper constructed a carbon emission calculation model for each stage of the railway logistics base. With a railway logistics base as an example, the carbon emissions throughout its full life cycle were calculated to be 3.014 1 million tons of CO2e. Three emission reduction scenarios were designed, including energy transformation, energy efficiency upgrading, and carbon sink increasing. The trends in carbon emissions under different scenarios were simulated. The results show that the energy transformation scenario has the best emission reduction effect, reducing carbon emissions by 179 100 tons of CO2e. Emission reduction strategies are proposed in terms of four aspects: green intensification, energy transformation, energy efficiency upgrading, and carbon sink increasing, so as to promote the transformation of railway logistics bases towards sustainable development and achieve sustainable development of modern railway logistics in China.
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