Estimation and Environmental Assessment of Life Cycle Freight and Passenger Transportation of US Goods and Services for Sustainability

0755672Matthews这项研究将开发系统的生命周期货运和客运模型的经济部门和个别产品和服务，包括通勤，交付和供应链的影响。 这些模型将基于整个美国经济中最新的经济投入产出交易模型，并增加了有关交通使用和环境影响的数据。 这些模型将估计多种运输模式的数据，包括航空、轻型车辆、铁路、公共交通、卡车和水路。 这些模型将被应用于评估交付和制造的影响，逆向物流对产品生产者责任延伸的影响，以及减少生命周期运输排放的视频会议或远程工作策略。 这些模型将在互联网上提供，以便其他交通和可持续发展研究人员可以进行自己的调查。 研究中的特殊智力挑战包括连接多个数据源，模型验证，界面设计，以及为环境可持续性和运输专业人员合成分析结果。

0755672MatthewsThis research will develop systematic models of life cycle freight and passenger transportation for economic sectors and individual products and services, including commuting, delivery, and supply chain effects. The models will be based on the latest economic input-output model of transactions within the entire U.S. economy, augmented with data about transportation use and environmental impacts. The models will estimate data for multiple transportation modes including air, light vehicles, rail, transit, truck, and waterway. These models will be applied to estimate delivery and manufacturing impacts, reverse logistics impacts for extended producer responsibility of products, and videoconferencing or telework strategies to reduce lifecycle transportation emissions. The models will be available on the Internet so that other transportation and sustainability researchers can pursue their own inquiries. Particular intellectual challenges in the research include linking multiple data sources, model validation, interface design, and synthesizing analysis results for environmental sustainability and transportation professionals.