Towards life cycle sustainability assessment of alternative passenger vehicles

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9305-9342

  Onat, Nuri Cihat ^a   Kucukvar, Murat ^b   Tatari, Omer ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Electric vehicles; Life cycle sustainability assessment; Sustainability indicators; Sustainable transportation; Triple bottom line input output analysis

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921065084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6129305     Document Type: Article

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