Advancing from Efficiency to Sustainability in Swedish Medium-sized Cities: An Approach for Recommending Powertrains and Energy Carriers for Public Bus Transport Systems

Authors

Lisiana Nurhadi
Sven Borén
Henrik Ny

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2014

Subject Area

mode - bus, place - europe, planning - environmental impact, planning - integration, policy - sustainable, technology - emissions

Keywords

Electric bus, Life cycle assessment, Greenhouse gas emissions

Abstract

European national, regional, and local authorities have started to take action to make public bus transport services more effective and less polluting. Some see the possibility to move beyond a narrow focus on efficiency or carbon dioxide reductions towards an integrated sustainability perspective. This paper uses this perspective to build and test a new assessment approach that should enhance decisions on bus transport powertrains and energy carriers for Swedish medium-sized cities. The study suggests that a superiority of electric powertrains is revealed if a traditional economic analysis is integrated with a strategic sustainability perspective.

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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Recommended Citation

Nurhadi, L., Borén, S., and Ny, H. (2014). Advancing from Efficiency to Sustainability in Swedish Medium-sized Cities: An Approach for Recommending Powertrains and Energy Carriers for Public Bus Transport Systems. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume 111, 5 February 2014, Pages 586–595.