WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 14, 2018
A Cost-Benefit Analysis Based on the Carbon Footprint Derived from plug-in Hybrid Electric Buses for Urban Public Transport Services
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Abstract: Sustainable mobility and green development are based on the achievement of three goals: environment, society and economy. This means that a sustainable plan/project must be, at the same time, equitable, viable, and bearable. In urban areas, the transport sector significantly impacts with respect to both fuel consumption and environmental emissions. At this aim, planning policies aimed at reducing these negative impacts are very important. Many researches cover the problem of perform rational decisions to improve the transportation sector. One of the most useful quantitative methods to evaluate rational project solution is the cost-benefit analysis. In literature the ""traditional"" cost-benefit analysis not always take into account the overall carbon footprint of a transport project/policy. The “carbon footprint” is the total (direct and indirect) amount of greenhouse gas emissions caused by a project/policy/service expressed as the overall amount of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted. Moreover, the recent economic crisis has made necessary also to generate a ""profit"" from transport services/infrastructures, as well as positive impacts for users and for environment.
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Keywords: carbon footprint, sustainable mobility, clean transport, transportation planning, greenhouse gas, particulate matter emissions, fuel consumption, ex-ante evaluations, cost-benefit analysis, revenue & cost analysis
Pages: 125-135
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 14, 2018, Art. #12