Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15548632 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mikhail Chester (0000-0002-9354-2102, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), Mikhail V Chester, Arpad Horvath (0000-0003-1340-7099, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 024008-024008 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/4/2/024008 |
| OpenAlex | W2141038518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 62 |
| References cited | 13 |
To appropriately mitigate environmental impacts from transportation, it is necessary for decision makers to consider the life-cycle energy use and emissions. Most current decision-making relies on analysis at the tailpipe, ignoring vehicle production, infrastructure provision, and fuel production required for support. We present results of a comprehensive life-cycle energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and selected criteria air pollutant emissions inventory for automobiles, buses, trains, and airplanes in the US, including vehicles, infrastructure, fuel production, and supply chains. We find that total life-cycle energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions contribute an additional 63% for onroad, 155% for rail, and 31% for air systems over vehicle tailpipe operation. Inventorying criteria air pollutants shows that vehicle non-operational components often dominate total emissions. Life-cycle criteria air pollutant emissions are between 1.1 and 800 times larger than vehicle operation. Ranges in passenger occupancy can easily change the relative performance of modes
Air pollutants · Air pollution · Business · Criteria air contaminants · Environmental economics · Environmental impact assessment · Greenhouse gas · Life-cycle assessment · Pollutant · Production (economics · Supply chain · Train · Transport engineering · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Engineering · Environmental Impact and Sustainability · Environmental Science · Vehicle emissions and performance · Environmental Engineering
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| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 62 |