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Alternative Title:
Supplemental Findings for: Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment of Passenger Transportation Modes in the U.S.
Creators:
Chester, Mikhail ; Horvath, Arpad
Chester, Mikhail ; Horvath, Arpad Less -
Corporate Contributors:
UC Berkeley Center for Future Urban Transport
Subject/TRT Terms:
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Diesel Engine Exhaust Gases Electric Buses Exhaust Gases Life Cycle Analysis Motorcycles Rail Transit School Buses Statistics
Publication/ Report Number:
UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-2
Resource Type:
Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:
Chicago Metropolitan Area ; New York (New York)
Chicago Metropolitan Area ; New York (New York) Less -
OCLC Number:
657372373
Corporate Publisher:
University of California, Berkeley
NTL Classification:
NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Air Quality;NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT;NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Environment Impacts;NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-Statistics;
Abstract:
The development of life-cycle energy and emissions factors for passenger transportation modes

is critical for understanding the total environmental costs of travel. Previous life-cycle studies have focused on the automobile given its dominating share of passenger travel and have

included only few life-cycle components, typically related to the vehicle (i.e., manufacturing, maintenance, end-of-life) or fuel (i.e., extraction, refining, transport). Chester (2009) provides the first comprehensive environmental life-cycle assessment of not only vehicle and fuel components but also infrastructure components for automobiles, buses, commuter rail systems, and aircraft. Many processes were included for vehicles (manufacturing, active operation, inactive operation, maintenance, insurance), infrastructure (construction, operation, maintenance, parking, insurance), and fuels (production, distribution). The vehicles inventoried were sedans, pickups, SUVs, urban diesel buses, light rail (San Francisco’s Muni Metro and Boston’s Green Line, both electric), heavy rail (San Francisco Bay Area’s BART and Caltrain), and aircraft (small, medium and large-sized planes are disaggregated). Given the theodological framework in Chester (2009), the question of applicability of these systems to other U.S. modes, and the data availability of other modes, is extended in this study to motorcycles, light duty diesel vehicles, school buses,

electric buses, Chicago commuter rail modes, and New York City commuter rail modes. This working paper supplements the results from Chester (2008) available at http://

repositories.cdlib.org/its/ds/UCB-ITS-DS-2008-1/. In addition, these results follow Chester (2009), a publication by these authors titled "Environmental Assessment of Passenger Transportation Should Include Infrastructure and Supply Chains" in Environmental Research Letters. Additional

project information is available at http://www.sustainable-transportation.com/.


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PDF
Alternate URL:
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6z37f2jr#page-1
Collection(s):
US Transportation Collection
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:34606f0441f73c455173f6fcb05ac57d132c877e2aba26ac4afc1be5696837c8
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https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5918/dot_5918_DS1.pdf
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