The LCA allows to assess the environmental impacts caused by the different transportation modal shares, eventually supporting the design of the optimal modal share under and environmental perspective.ÄOWNLOAD Report Comparative assessment of reusable ceramic cups and disposable paper cups This result is subject to change based on the modal share of the different mode of transportation. The findings emerging from this case study suggest that while the impacts of LHV are significantly lower than that of a conventional truck, the benefits of introducing LHVs (where LHVs form 40% of the road transport modal share) would be negated if there is more than 30% increase in the demand for freight transport. To this purpose, a four-layer approach is defined: (i) initially, the life cycles of a LHV and a normal truck are compared (ii) secondly, the two technologies are compared adding the impacts due to road construction, maintenance and end of life phase into the model (iii) thirdly, different situations of LHV shares in the road transport modal share for freight transport are compared, (iv) followed with identifying the effects of increase in the overall market share for freight transport.
This case study aims to comprehensively evaluate the impact of introducing LHVs to the German transport context using ISO14040-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The assessment of the environmental impacts of LHVs is new and has been partially addressed by existing literature. Longer and Heavier Vehicles (LHVs) are considered a promising solution within the freight transport sector. Comparative assessment of conventional truck transportation and Longer and Heavier Vehicles (LAHV) for freight transport *Contact if you created an LCA study in openLCA which you would like to share with the openLCA community too. We do! Two of our colleagues recently worked on LCA case studies in openLCA which we would like to share with the openLCA community.
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