TITLE:
The Environmental Impacts and Economic Benefits on Comprehensively Promoting Alternative Fuel Buses in China: Life-Cycle and Scenario Analysis Based on LEAP Model
AUTHORS:
Siting Xie
KEYWORDS:
New Energy Buses, Emission Mitigation, Economic Benefits, Life-Cycle Analysis, Scenario Analysis
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.7 No.4,
April
18,
2019
ABSTRACT: With the continuous development of urban public transportation, the harmful
GHG emissions and pollutants generated by itself and the consequent issues
such as the losses of residents’ health, economic value and residents’
welfare have become the focus of social attention. In order to study the impacts
of promoting new energy vehicles on public transportation pollution
mitigation and residents’ health benefits, this paper adopts the LEAP model
to build some scenarios that fulfill different development needs to quantitatively
analyze the ownership of new energy buses, the reduction of pollutants
and the losses of residents’ health welfare. It is concluded that promoting new
energy buses comprehensively can significantly reduce the emissions of atmospheric
pollutants and the economic losses of residents’ health, but cannot
fully realize the targets of greenhouse gas reduction under Life Cycle Analysis.