Inland transportation system planning by life cycle impact assessment: a case study |
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Authors: | Kazuhiko Hasegawa Kho Shahriar Iqbal |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan, JP |
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Abstract: | The comparison of land and inland water transportation from economical and ecological points of view is discussed. Required
freight rates for trucks and ships are calculated and compared to find which has economic superiority. From the environmental
impacts of these two transportation types, the comparative environmental destruction indices for two different time-durations
are estimated. All these investigations were conducted for the Yokohama–Fukuoka route in Japan. Life cycle impact assessment,
a very useful tool for quantitatively evaluating the environmental influence of a product, was used to compare the environmental
burden imposed by these types of transportation. Finally, the way that these results can be used for inland transportation
system planning is discussed.
Received: January 21, 2000 / Accepted: June 27, 2000 |
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Keywords: | Transportation Environment Modal shift Life cycle impact assessment Kyoto Protocol |
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