Increasing environmental concerns as well as economic and social impacts of transportation in communities have made essential the incorporation of sustainability into the planning process. This paper describes a long-term sustainability-based comprehensive framework for the life cycle assessment of any urban transportation mode. The sustainability framework, which is composed of four layers and three controllers, acts as a filter that decomposes the components and attributes of a transportation mode to reveal its sustainability dimensions. The four proposed sustainability layers, environment, technology, energy and economy, are used in a case study to assess light-duty vehicles. The assessment includes the quantification of a set of sustainability indicators for six light-duty vehicles to compare their performance. The results provide an overall sustainability comparison for an internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV), a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), a fuel cell vehicle (FCV), an electric vehicle (EV), a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV), and a gasoline pickup truck (GPT).


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    Title :

    Sustainability Framework for the Life Cycle Assessment of Light-Duty Vehicles


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    11th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals (ICCTP) ; 2011 ; Nanjing, China


    Published in:

    ICCTP 2011 ; 4407-4419


    Publication date :

    2011-07-26




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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