Integrating life cycle costs and environmental impacts of composite rail car-bodies for a Korean train

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 429-442

  Schwab Castella, Pascale ^a,b   Blanc, Isabelle ^a,b,c   Gomez Ferrer, Marcel ^a,d   Ecabert, Bastien ^a   Wakeman, Martyn ^a   Manson, Jan Anders ^a   Emery, Daniel ^a   Han, Seong Ho ^e   Hong, Jinglan ^f   Jolliet, Olivier ^a,f  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d JG Proyectos División Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^e Korea Railroad Research Institute   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite material; Cost modelling; LCA; LCC; Life Cycle Assessment; Life Cycle Costing; Railway; Train; Transport

Indexed keywords

METAL; POLYMER; STEEL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAR; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; COST; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYBRID; KOREA; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY;

EID: 67650716355     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-009-0096-2     Document Type: Article

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