[HTML][HTML] Greenhouse gas emission analysis and measurement for urban rail transit: a review of research progress and prospects

Z Yuan, X Yuan, Y Yang, J Chen, Y Nie… - Digital Transportation …, 2023 - maxapress.com
Rail transit plays a key role in mitigating transportation system carbon emissions. Accurate
measurement of urban rail transit carbon emission can help quantify the contribution of …

Metro systems and urban development: Impacts and implications

D Lin, W Broere, J Cui - Tunnelling and underground space technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Many cities in the world have developed metro systems. Metro systems affect urban
development in many ways, such as enhancing labour force mobility, increasing urban …

Embodied emissions in rail infrastructure: a critical literature review

O Olugbenga, N Kalyviotis, S Saxe - Environmental Research …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper investigates the state of knowledge in quantifying the embodied greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions in rail infrastructure and develops a sketch model for estimating the GHG …

[HTML][HTML] Metro systems: Construction, operation and impacts

D Lin, Z Zhou, M Weng, W Broere, J Cui - Tunnelling and Underground …, 2024 - Elsevier
Metro systems have been in use for over 150 years, and new metro lines are still being
constructed, either as new metro systems or as expansions of existing metro networks. In …

Characterizing the generation and environmental impacts of subway-related excavated soil and rock in China

N Zhang, H Duan, P Sun, J Li, J Zuo, R Mao… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
With rapid urban expansion in China, subway construction activities have been widely
promoted. Accordingly, a large amount of subway-related excavated soil and rock (ESR) are …

Global urban subway development, construction material stocks, and embodied carbon emissions

R Mao, Y Bao, H Duan, G Liu - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2021 - nature.com
Urban subway system, as an important type of urban transportation infrastructure, can
provide mass mobility service and help address urban sustainability challenges such as …

Low-carbon effects of constructing a prefabricated subway station with temporary internal supports: An innovative case of Shenzhen, China

K Chen, X Chen, L Wang, W Yang, T Qiu, D Su… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
The traditional cast-in-site (CIS) construction method for subway stations has presented
significant challenges to the construction industry in light of the growing labor shortage …

Taxonomy of uncertainty in environmental life cycle assessment of infrastructure projects

S Saxe, G Guven, L Pereira, A Arrigoni… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly being used to evaluate
infrastructure products and to inform their funding, design and construction. As such …

Exploring social impacts of urban rail transit PPP projects: Towards dynamic social change from the stakeholder perspective

X Xiahou, L Tang, J Yuan, J Zuo, Q Li - Environmental Impact Assessment …, 2022 - Elsevier
While the adoption of public–private partnerships (PPPs) in urban rail transit (URT) has
increased in popularity in the past few decades, the participation of private sectors in such …

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

S Saxe, D Kasraian - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …