Quantification of the Hydrological Components to Estimate Water Balance of Lake Badovc, Kosovo

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Abstract: Starting from these considerations the aims of this paper were: i) to evaluate if the use of hybrid electric buses for a new urban public transport services could produce profit for a private/public transport operator; ii) to develop a cost-benefit analysis explicitly considering the overall carbon footprint (and not only the local impacts) produced by this vehicle technology. The case study was a new urban bus line designed in a medium size city, Salerno, in Italy. The results of the study underline that the use of hybrid electric buses could produce a profit for private/public transport operators and the analysis based on the overall carbon footprint allow to better estimate the (positive) impacts deriving from the use of this vehicle technology. Since the hybrid electric buses have a carbon footprint -12/18% lower than a traditional bus, an urban transportation service based on this type of technology allows to obtain grater benefits up to +82% against a traditional one.

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 14, 2018, Art. #13

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Skender Bublaku, "Quantification of the Hydrological Components to Estimate Water Balance of Lake Badovc, Kosovo," WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, vol. 14, pp. 136-144, 2018, DOI:
Skender Bublaku. Quantification of the Hydrological Components to Estimate Water Balance of Lake Badovc, Kosovo. WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development. 2018;14:136-144.
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