Integrating Life-cycle Assessment into Transport Cost-benefit Analysis

Manzo, Stefano; Salling, Kim Bang

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.064

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“…Transport infrastructure LCA has been used to compare competing transportation modes (e.g. high‐speed rail vs. air travel (Åkerman, 2011; Bueno, Hoyos, & Capellán‐Pérez, 2017; Chang et al., 2019; Chester & Horvath, 2012)), to identify the relative environmental impacts of different life stages (e.g., construction vs. operation (Chester & Horvath, 2009; Fridell, Bäckström, & Stripple, 2019)), to optimize infrastructure planning and design to meet environmental regulations (Brand, Tran, & Anable, 2012; Chester, Pincetl, Elizabeth, Eisenstein, & Matute, 2013; Harvey et al., 2019), and to facilitate multicriteria analysis of proposed transport infrastructure projects (Cristiano & Gonella, 2019; Manzo & Salling, 2016; Matos Silva, Serro, Dinis Ferreira, & Teotónio, 2019; Trigaux, Wijnants, Troyer, & Allacker, 2017).…”

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Rethinking environmental LCA life stages for transport infrastructure to facilitate holistic assessment

Saxe

Kasraian

2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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Life cycle assessment (LCA) aims to provide a near full accounting of impacts from the complete life of a product, to avoid burden shifting between different parts of the life cycle. However, this is exceptionally difficult with transport infrastructure because important parts of their impact lie outside the widely applied industrial-product-oriented LCA life stages: production, manufacturing, use, and end of life. To account for those missing impacts, we propose a new framework for assessing the life cycle impacts of transport infrastructure. This framework takes account of the differences between transport infrastructure and the industrial product system to which LCA is most attuned. First, rather than a linear process from material extraction to disposal, this LCA framework accommodates the multiple iterations of transport infrastructure through circular life stages. These reflect the long lifetimes, durability, persistence, and feedback loops of transport infrastructure. Second, this framework recognizes the impact at the start of the life cycle created by demolition of previous infrastructure or land clearing. Third, the tightly linked external impacts that transport infrastructure induces, including influences on travel behavior, local land use, land use, land use change and forestry, and network effects are captured. Fourth, this framework recharacterizes "end of life" as "partial end of life," in reflection of the widespread reconstruction, major refurbishment of and persistence of indirect impacts from transport infrastructure.

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Rethinking environmental LCA life stages for transport infrastructure to facilitate holistic assessment

Saxe

Kasraian

2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…The realistic way to include all criteria is to combine diverse approaches/methods, such as the combination of LCA and CBA. LCA can better assess the inter-temporal aggregation of impacts (intergenerational equity), while CBA covers thoroughly the sustainability pillars as the basis for identifying the project effects in monetary terms (e.g., [54]).…”

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A systematic review of indicators to assess the sustainability of road infrastructure projects

Suprayoga

Bakker

Witte

et al. 2020

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Background: This study aims to examine to what extent sustainability has been incorporated into assessments of road infrastructure projects. It identifies promising approaches that include indicators reflecting core sustainability criteria, determines criteria that were insufficiently covered as indicators, and develops an integrated indicator set covering all criteria. Methods: A systematic review was performed to obtain all related papers/reports in two academic databases: Scopus and Web of Sciences. The indicators extracted from papers/reports were first coded, then evaluated by using quantitative and qualitative content analysis. Results: The project appraisal methods for decision-making is found to be a promising approach, covering more extensive criteria than others. Two criterianamely adaptation and precaution and intergenerational equitywere hardly ever adopted as indicators. Ten main groups of indicators were extracted to construct an integrated set incorporating all core criteria. Conclusions: Some criteria appear to have become mainstream, while others deserve attention. The safest choice is to combine methods/tools or to adopt the integrated set developed for exhaustive criteria inclusion.

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“…It is quite prominent that, in India, [45] "FIVE" commodities add-up to 79.62 per cent of entire import-export shipments in India with dynamic origination and destination coordinates across the nation. The literature which deals with the factors that determine partnerships between institutions and corporates who operate in the transportation space for these products can give insights in terms of forming the [37], fundamental structure of multimodal framework establishment that can yield in tangible results which can be specific to these commodities.…”

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An Algorithmic Approach for Maritime Transportation

Pinakpani¹,

Polisetty²,

Bhaskar³

et al. 2020

IJACSA

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Starting from the 3rd millennium BC, Indian maritime trade has augmented the life of a common man and businesses alike. This study, finds that India can leverage on the 7,500 long coast line and derive holistic development in terms of interconnected ports with hinterland connectivity and realize lower expenditure coupled with reduced carbon emission. This research analyzed a decade of cargo data from origination to destination and found that around 82.95 per cent (953 MMTPA in 2017-18) of road based consignments in India comprised of Fertilizers, Hydrocarbons, Coal, Lubricants and Oil. Essentially, a quantum of this i.e. 78.39 per cent of MMTPA cargo consignments (State Owned Hydrocarbons) traverses on Indian roads. The study drew parameters of this transportation paradigm and modeled the same using Artificial Intelligence to depict a monumental opportunity to rationalize costs, improve efficiency and reduce carbon emission to strengthen the argument for the employment of Multimodal Logistics in the Maritime Sector. Subsequent to model derivation the same set of parameters are plotted as an efficient transit map of Interstate transit lines connecting 16 major hubs which now handle bulk cargo shipped by all modes of transport. For the pollution segment a collaborative game theoretic approach i.e., Shapley value is proposed for improved decision making. This study presents data driven and compelling research evidence to portray the benefits of collaboration between firms in terms of time and cost. The study also proposes the need and method to improve hinterland connectivity using a scalable greedy algorithm which is tested with real time data of Coal and Bulk Cargo. As a scientific value addition, this study presents a mathematical model that can be implemented across geographies seamlessly using Information Communication Technology.

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Integrating Life-cycle Assessment into Transport Cost-benefit Analysis

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Rethinking environmental LCA life stages for transport infrastructure to facilitate holistic assessment

Rethinking environmental LCA life stages for transport infrastructure to facilitate holistic assessment

A systematic review of indicators to assess the sustainability of road infrastructure projects

An Algorithmic Approach for Maritime Transportation

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