Systems thinking for life cycle sustainability assessment: A review of recent developments, applications, and future perspectives

NC Onat, M Kucukvar, A Halog, S Cloutier - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Tracking the environmental impacts of production, use, and disposal of products (eg, goods,
and services) have been an important issue in the global economy. Although Life Cycle …

Decarbonizing road freight transportation–A bibliometric and network analysis

T Meyer - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Road freight transportation literature increasingly concentrates on environmental aspects to
reduce logistics contribution to carbon dioxide emissions. Some literature reviews highlight …

Autonomous electric vehicles can reduce carbon emissions and air pollution in cities

T Ercan, NC Onat, N Keya, O Tatari, N Eluru… - … Research Part D …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy dependence on personal vehicle usage made the transportation sector a major
contributor to global climate change and air pollution in cities. In this study, we analyzed …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of electric trucks–An international commodity-level analysis

H Liimatainen, O van Vliet, D Aplyn - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of battery technology is making battery electric heavy duty trucks
technically and commercially viable and several manufacturers have introduced battery …

Transport (Chapter 10)

P Jaramillo, S Kahn Ribeiro, P Newman, S Dhar… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Meeting climate mitigation goals would require transformative changes in the transport
sector (high confidence). In 2019, direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transport …

Does a battery-electric truck make a difference?–Life cycle emissions, costs, and externality analysis of alternative fuel-powered Class 8 heavy-duty trucks in the …

B Sen, T Ercan, O Tatari - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
Attempting to gain insights from how alternative fuel technologies employed in heavy-duty
trucks (HDTs) differ with respect to their life-cycle emissions, costs, and externalities …

Life cycle assessment of electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles using the greet model—A comparative study

EYC Wong, DCK Ho, S So, CW Tsang, EMH Chan - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Facing global warming and recent bans on the use of diesel in vehicles, there is a growing
need to develop vehicles powered by renewable energy sources to mitigate greenhouse …

How sustainable is electric mobility? A comprehensive sustainability assessment approach for the case of Qatar

NC Onat, M Kucukvar, NNM Aboushaqrah, R Jabbar - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Electric mobility is a trending topic around the world, and many countries are supporting
electric vehicle technologies to reduce environmental impacts from transportation such as …

Electric mobility toward sustainable cities and road-freight logistics: A systematic review and future research directions

FE Alarcón, A Mac Cawley, E Sauma - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The importance of electric vehicles (EVs) lies in the fact that they are seen as a key solution
to the climate change problem. In the last decade, this topic has received significant interest …

Systematic review of life cycle assessments on carbon emissions in the transportation system

W Zhang, Y Li, H Li, S Liu, J Zhang, Y Kong - … Impact Assessment Review, 2024 - Elsevier
The transportation sector significantly contributes to carbon emissions, prompting a surge in
research on emission reduction. Carbon estimation methods include bottom-up, top-down …