Life cycle sustainability assessment of autonomous heavy‐duty trucks

B Sen, M Kucukvar, NC Onat… - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are emerging technologies expected to bring
important environmental, social, and economic improvements in transportation systems …

Carbon and energy footprints of refuse collection trucks: A hybrid life cycle evaluation

Y Zhao, O Tatari - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2017 - Elsevier
Refuse collection trucks, due to the frequent stop-and-go nature of their operation, have
considerably lower fuel economy and larger amounts of tailpipe emissions. In this study …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental impact assessment of autonomous transportation systems

S Heiberg, E Emond, C Allen, D Raya, V Gadhamshetty… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The transportation industry has led efforts to fight climate change and reduce air pollution.
Autonomous electric vehicles (A-EVs) that use artificial intelligence, next-generation …

Does a battery-electric truck make a difference?–Life cycle emissions, costs, and externality analysis of alternative fuel-powered Class 8 heavy-duty trucks in the …

B Sen, T Ercan, O Tatari - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
Attempting to gain insights from how alternative fuel technologies employed in heavy-duty
trucks (HDTs) differ with respect to their life-cycle emissions, costs, and externalities …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle assessment of shared and private use of automated and electric vehicles on interurban mobility

M Vilaça, G Santos, MSA Oliveira, MC Coelho… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The future of road transportation systems faces fundamental changes concerning
technological progress and business models. Automated and electric vehicles are coming …

Environmental impacts of the transition to automated vehicles: A life cycle perspective

L Obaid, SA Alattieh, M Abdallah, K Hamad - Sustainable Materials and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The environmental benefits and burdens of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are
still a subject of debate in the existing literature. This research aims to address this gap by …

Environmental sustainability of public transportation fleet replacement with electric buses in Houston, a megacity in the USA

H Du, RR Kommalapati - International Journal of Sustainable …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In the Greater Houston Area, mobile sources contribute to the highest share of
NOx emissions and the second-highest share of VOC emissions. The Houston METRO …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle assessment of commercial delivery trucks: Diesel, plug-in electric, and battery-swap electric

L Yang, C Hao, Y Chai - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The development of electric delivery trucks has attracted much attention in recent years. The
purpose of this study is to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the total cost of …

Parametric modeling approach for economic and environmental life cycle assessment of medium-duty truck electrification

DY Lee, VM Thomas - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
Using a parametric modeling approach, we evaluate economic and environmental life cycle
trade-offs of medium-duty electric trucks in comparison with nine non-electric technologies …

A review on energy, environmental, and sustainability implications of connected and automated vehicles

M Taiebat, AL Brown, HR Safford, S Qu… - Environmental science & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are poised to reshape transportation and
mobility by replacing humans as the driver and service provider. While the primary stated …