Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Transportation and the Environment Conference (APTE 2018)

Sun-to-Heel Energy Efficiency of Transportation Fuels

Authors
Leo Jia, Ong Ghim
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Leo Jia
Available Online October 2019.
DOI
10.2991/apte-18.2019.24How to use a DOI?
Keywords
life cycle analysis, transport energy, efficiency, well-to-wheel, sun-to-heel
Abstract

Life cycle analysis (LCA) is a technique to assess the environmental impact of a product or service throughout its life cycle and is used commonly to evaluate transport decisions at the planning level. Well-to-Wheel (WtW) is a subset of LCA that focuses on the efficiency of transport fuels by measuring fuel usage, greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants for a given pathway from the oil wells to the wheels of a vehicle being studied. The method has been commonly used to evaluate environmentally-friendly transport projects or applications. However, such methods do not consider the first and last mile connection and hence could not be adopted for planning-related transport applications (for example, transit-oriented development). This paper proposes a new approach of LCA – sun-to-heel (StH) method of LCA where a holistic system wide perspective based on trips, including first and last mile connections are considered during the environmental impact assessment of a transport product or service. Using secondary data collected from various transport applications, it can be shown that the StH method is a much more comprehensive approach in evaluating environmental impact of transit-friendly transportation innovations as compared to the WtW method

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Transportation and the Environment Conference (APTE 2018)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
October 2019
ISBN
10.2991/apte-18.2019.24
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/apte-18.2019.24How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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