At what extent the benefits of introducing alternative light-duty vehicles offset those of increasing the buses average occupancy?

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 211-219

  Silva, Carla ^a  

^a Instituto Superior Tecnico Institute for Mechanical Engineering   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bus use co benefit; Electric drive vehicles; Electricity mix; Emissions; Fuel life cycle; Monte Carlo analysis

Indexed keywords

CO BENEFITS; ELECTRIC-DRIVE VEHICLES; ENERGY AND EMISSIONS; FLEET REPLACEMENT; LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION;

BUSES; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LIFE CYCLE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VEHICLES;

FLEET OPERATIONS;

EID: 84876145199     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.02.019     Document Type: Article

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