Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Sport Utility Vehicles: The Case for Qatar
Electric vehicle technologies are attractive alternatives to traditional vehicles towards achieving sustainable transportation. The adoption of these technologies has a great potential in reducing road transportation externalities. As Qatar aims to achieve 10% electric vehicles by 2030, this research reveals the macro-level environmental, social, and economic impacts and benefits of electric vehicles in Qatar. The studied vehicle technologies are gasoline vehicle (ICV), hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), and battery electric vehicle (BEV). In this regard, the authors quantified 9 macro level indicators using Multi regional input-output (MRIO)-based life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) framework and compared the vehicles accordingly. The results show that electric vehicles are better options in terms of Global Warming Potential (GWP), Particulate Matter Formation (PMF), and Photochemical Ozone Formation (POF) impacts. In addition to that, the results demonstrated that electric vehicles are more cost effectives than the traditional ones, while they are worse than traditional vehicles in terms of employment, operating surplus, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) impacts.
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- © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
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Corporate Authors:
Springer International Publishing
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Authors:
- Aboushaqrah, Nour N M
- Onat, Nuri Cihat
- Kucukvar, Murat
- Jabbar, Rateb
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Conference:
- Smart and Green Solutions for Transport Systems : 16th Scientific and Technical Conference "Transport Systems. Theory and Practice 2019"
- Location: Katowice , Poland
- Date: 2019-9-16 to 2019-9-18
- Publication Date: 2019-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Edition: 1
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 279-287
- Monograph Title: Smart and Green Solutions for Transport Systems: 16th Scientific and Technical Conference "Transport Systems. Theory and Practice 2019" Selected Papers
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Serial:
- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
- Volume: 1091
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- ISSN: 2194-5357
- Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/bookseries/11156
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Electric vehicles; Hybrid vehicles; Life cycle analysis; Plug-in hybrid vehicles; Sport utility vehicles; Sustainable transportation
- Geographic Terms: Qatar
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01899803
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9783030355425
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 18 2023 6:12PM