Framing Electric Mobility for Urban Sustainability in a Circular Economy Context: An Overview of the Literature

Filho, Walter Leal; Abubakar, Ismaila Rimi; Kötter, Richard; Grindsted, Thomas Skou; Balogun, Abdul‐Lateef; Salvia, Amanda Lange; Aina, Yusuf A.; Wolf, Franziska

doi:10.3390/su13147786

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“…Leal Filho et al (2021) provide an overview on electric mobility research from a circular economy perspective and the potential for a transition towards a sustainable automotive industry. Closed-loop traction-batteries and sustainable product service systems are essential to reduce the demand for critical raw materials.…”

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Towards an open digital thread for electric mobility

Weiher¹,

Mies²,

Senge³

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How Product and Manufacturing Design Enable Sustainable Companies and Societies

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The material intensity and ongoing servitisation of electric mobility highlights the relevance of circular design concepts focussed on reuse, remanufacturing and recycling that contribute to the transition towards sustainable value creation. This paper gives an overview on technology trends that call for the development of an open digital thread (ODT) for electric mobility which is investigated as a tool in a digitalised, connected and collaborative circular economy. Thus, the ODT in our definition connects the stakeholders across all life cycle phases as integrated digital infrastructure of electric mobility. Using open data principles, it is envisaged to enable participation, cooperation and collaboration by creating interoperability based on accessibility and (re)usability of data. Taking a life cycle perspective reveals the potential of knowledge-based decision making to improve the environmental impacts and operational performance of electric mobility. The paper posits a definition for the ODT followed by a brief overview of relevant concepts and technologies for its development. The results of a systematic literature review are presented, to identify the implications of the circular economy for the ODT. These results provide a basis for future research, which should investigate the requirements of data ontologies for the ODT in electric mobility and beyond and the process requirements for a transition towards opening data in a bottom-up approach.

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Section: Towards An Open Digital Thread For Electric Mobilitymentioning

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Towards an open digital thread for electric mobility

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Mies²,

Senge³

et al. 2022

How Product and Manufacturing Design Enable Sustainable Companies and Societies

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“…It is part of environmental sustainability strategies that reinforce realizing the UN's Agenda 2030 for SD by helping "to protect natural resources and the climate, as well as the environment and human health" [27], and secure raw material supplies [28]. It is "meant to reduce negative impacts along the life cycle of materials and products by managing materials in same or higher value cycles so that primary materials can be substituted by secondary material of suitable quality, thus economizing on primary material" [4] (p. 4).…”

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“…Evidence from Europe, the USA, Japan, and China indicates that CE helps in optimizing natural resource exploitation, rising operation efficacy, and transitioning from open to closed cycles of energy and materials, achieving few wasteful industrial processes by adopting the "cradle to cradle" perspective rooted in CE, and the 3R strategy that allows municipalities and companies to save cost in managing waste [4].…”

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“…The concept of CE can help address the tremendous ecological externalities related to the linear "take, make, trash" manufacturing framework [2]. Besides waste management, CE is also implemented in materials efficiency, product design, product recycling, electro-mobility, and promoting low-carbon city [3][4][5][6]. It is a worldwide strategy where the conventional linear economic framework is shifted to a closed-loop framework by considering the connection between materials use and waste residuals [7,8].…”

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Understanding Public Environmental Awareness and Attitudes toward Circular Economy Transition in Saudi Arabia

Almulhim

Abubakar

2021

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Circular economy (CE) has been globally acknowledged as a national sustainable development (SD) strategy to confront resource shortages and environmental contamination challenges. Although public behaviors and lifestyles play an essential role in achieving sustainability, in developing countries, few studies explored the role of public awareness, attitudes, and lifestyles on CE transition. Thus, it is necessary to elicit public opinion to understand their awareness and attitude regarding CE strategy to determine obstacles to CE implementation and approaches of overcoming them. This study thus focuses on understanding public awareness and attitudes to CE transition in Saudi Arabia. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey distributed to 402 residents of the Dammam Metropolitan Area. The results indicated that the respondents had little understanding of the CE concept due to limited awareness of the topic. However, they held an optimistic attitude towards trash separation and classified their trash as “can be sold”, “reused”, and “exchanged for a new one”. Furthermore, the respondents’ level of awareness regarding the CE transition is positively related to their level of education. In contrast, the inclination towards resource conservation and pro-environmental behavior positively correlates to the age demographic. This paper thus contributes to the empirical literature on CE transition by exploring the public awareness and attitudes towards its implementation in Saudi Arabia.

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“…Different economic effects of implementing electromobility have been analysed inter alia by [42,43]. One of the most interesting observations in terms of economy of low-emission transport is that electric mobility can and should be a crucial element of circular economy which is a strategy for the development of the economy that allows increasing prosperity while reducing and optimizing resource consumption [44][45][46]. However, the change from the current high carbon mobility towards low carbon mobility of the future is-besides its technological and economic aspect-also a great political and organizational challenge.…”

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The Second Generation Electromobility in Polish Urban Public Transport: The Factors and Mechanisms of Spatial Development

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One of the key challenges on the road to sustainable mobility is the development of low/zero emission urban public transport (UPT). This is crucial in order to meet environmental requirements aiming at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. In some countries (e.g., Poland) reduction of air pollution is also an important reason behind the implementation of low/zero emission UPT. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors and mechanisms influencing the development of modern electromobility in Polish UPT. We have examined all 242 UPT systems in the country in terms of the characteristics of the relevant urban municipalities, such as size, economic prosperity, level of human and social capital, development paths of urban public transport in the long term as well as the institutional context and proximity and connections to other cities with experience in electromobility. Classification and statistical methods are used based on a variety of approaches, as assigning a score to various preliminarily identified indicators or applying correlation between quantities to verify the formulated hypotheses. Our analysis demonstrates that electromobility adoption is the result of a combination of favourable economic, urban, social and technological characteristic features of a given city. Zero or low emission buses are more common in large cities which are highly positioned in urban hierarchy, economically sound and which are characterized by a well-developed tertiary economy as well as by high human capital. An additional factor that positively influences the implementation of electromobility—in particular at the very first stage—is proximity to the location of low emission bus producers. The leadership in modern electromobility can be understood as part of a broader, proactive development policy of the cities aimed at improving the quality of life of their residents. This is especially important in medium-sized towns where utilizing electric vehicles can be an instrument to maintain or even develop their role and status. The results of the article may provide a basis for creating sustainable urban policies, especially sustainable mobility and improving environmental quality.

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Framing Electric Mobility for Urban Sustainability in a Circular Economy Context: An Overview of the Literature

Cited by 21 publications

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Towards an open digital thread for electric mobility

Towards an open digital thread for electric mobility

Understanding Public Environmental Awareness and Attitudes toward Circular Economy Transition in Saudi Arabia

The Second Generation Electromobility in Polish Urban Public Transport: The Factors and Mechanisms of Spatial Development

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