Well-to-wheel assessment for informing transition strategies to low-carbon fuel-vehicles in developing countries dependent on fuel imports: A case-study of road transport in Lebanon

Energy Policy

Volumn 107, Issue , 2017, Pages 167-181

  Mansour, Charbel J ^a   Haddad, Marc G ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Alternative fuel vehicles; Cost benefit analysis; Developing countries; Infrastructure assessment; Pollutant and GHG emissions; Well to wheel

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; NATURAL GAS VEHICLES; OILS AND FATS; POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTES; VEHICLE WHEELS;

ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLES; CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURES; ENERGY AND TRANSPORTATION; GHG EMISSION; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENT; PLUG IN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES; WELL-TO-WHEEL;

PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES;

ALTERNATIVE FUEL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; IMPORT; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

LEBANON;

EID: 85018328535     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.04.031     Document Type: Article

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