Coupling activity-based modeling and life cycle assessment-a proof-of-concept study on cross-border commuting in Luxembourg

Paul Baustert, Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez, Thomas Gibon, Laurent Chion, Tai Yu Ma, Gabriel Leite Mariante, Sylvain Klein, Philippe Gerber () and Enrico Benetto

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Abstract: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in 2010 the transport sector was responsible for 23% of the total energy-related CO2 emissions (6.7 GtCO2) worldwide. Policy makers in Luxembourg are well-aware of the challenges and are setting ambitious objectives at country level for the mid and long term. However, a framework to assess environmental impacts from a life cycle perspective on the scale of transport policy scenarios, rather than individual vehicles, is lacking. We present a novel framework linking activity-based modeling with life cycle assessment (LCA) and a proof-of-concept case study for the French cross-border commuters working in Luxembourg. Our framework allows for the evaluation of specific policies formulated on the trip level as well as aggregated evaluation of environmental impacts from a life cycle perspective. The results of our proof-of-concept-based case study suggest that only a combination of: (1) policy measures improving the speed and coverage of the public transport system; (2) policy measures fostering electric mobility; and (3) external factors such as de-carbonizing the electricity mix will allow to counteract the expected increase in impacts due to the increase of mobility needs of the growing commuting population in the long term.

Keywords: Activity-based modeling; Life cycle assessment; Policy analysis; Sustainable mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2019-07-27
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Published in Sustainability (Switzerland), 27, July, 2019, 11(15). ISSN: 2071-1050

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