Building impact assessment—A combined life cycle assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis framework

M Hu - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, net zero energy building has becoming a trend in the building industry, with
the aim to reach a carbon-neutral goal by 2050. Building codes, regulations, directives, and …

Autonomous vehicles and energy impacts: A scenario analysis

C Ross, S Guhathakurta - Energy Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
Autonomous vehicles will have tremendous impact on our cities and regions. This rapidly
emerging technology will affect the transport system in its entirety including changes in …

[HTML][HTML] The road to zero emission shipbuilding Industry: A systematic and transdisciplinary approach to modern multi-energy shipyards

S Vakili, A Schönborn, AI Ölçer - Energy Conversion and Management: X, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The International Maritime Organisation focuses on decarbonising the operational
phase of a ship's life cycle. However, shipbuilding contributes to a significant amount of …

Sustainable pavement management: Integrating economic, technical, and environmental aspects in decision making

C Torres-Machí, A Chamorro… - Transportation …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Sustainability, which is founded on the reconciliation of economic, environmental, and social
aspects, has become a major issue for infrastructure managers. The economic and …

Parking infrastructure: energy, emissions, and automobile life-cycle environmental accounting

M Chester, A Horvath, S Madanat - Environmental Research …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The US parking infrastructure is vast and little is known about its scale and environmental
impacts. The few parking space inventories that exist are typically regionalized and no …

Linking perception and reality: Climate-sustainability perception and carbon footprints in the Nordic countries

MIJH Maczionsek, KJ Dillman, J Heinonen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Nordic countries are often recognized as leaders in climate-sustainability. A potential
dissonance exists, however, between this perception and the measured sustainability of …

Life cycle assessment of high-speed rail: a case study in Portugal

H Jones, F Moura, T Domingos - The International Journal of Life Cycle …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose This study assesses the total life cycle environmental impact of the planned high-
speed rail line from Lisbon to Porto, in Portugal. It includes the impact from the seven main …

Dynamic energy and carbon footprints of urban transportation infrastructures: Differentiating between existing and newly-built assets

T Wei, S Chen - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Transportation infrastructures play an important role in building energy-efficient and low-
carbon cities. Yet, how existing and newly-built assets contribute differently to the footprints …

Exploring Regional Reduction Pathways for Human Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Using a Traffic Assignment Model

A Bin Thaneya, A Horvath - Environmental Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
An exposure-based traffic assignment (TA) model is used to quantify primary and secondary
fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) exposure from on-road vehicle flow on the Chicago …

Framework for analyzing transformative technologies in life cycle assessment

SA Miller, GA Keoleian - Environmental science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Emerging products and technologies pose unique challenges for the life cycle assessment
(LCA) community, given the lack of data and inherent uncertainties regarding their …