| | Towards Reduced Environmental Burden of Mobility: Improving |
| | 0,49 | | MB | the Automobile Life Cycle |
| | 51 | | stron |
| | 4369 | | ID | Leiden University, Centre of Environmental Science, The Netherlands |
| | 2003 | | rok |
| | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| | Preface2 |
| | TABLE OF CONTENTS.3 |
| | List of Tables .5 |
| | List of Figures5 |
| | Acronyms and Abbreviations6 |
| | 1. Introduction 8 |
| | Purpose of this Case Study 9 |
| | Organization of the Study 10 |
| | General Limitation11 |
| | Information Sources.11 |
| | 2. Description of the Automobile Sector (6 pages) .12 |
| | Overview of the Industry Sector 12 |
| | Parties involved in the chain13 |
| | The Automobile Life Cycle .14 |
| | The market and Trends 15 |
| | Characterisation of the Automobile Life Cycle Environmental Burden .18 |
| | Environmental status of the automobile industry & initiatives .22 |
| | Public policies, regulations and agreements that influence the automobile life cycle 23 |
| | Ongoing projects and platforms.26 |
| | 3. Information Demands and Opportunities for Improvement (6 pages) .28 |
| | Who is concerned about which problem? Who is demanding what? 28 |
| | Which information is needed for which decision situation? .34 |
| | Improvement Opportunities .35 |
| | Incentives for improvement .38 |
| | What is missing to make the improvements happen? 39 |
| | Which environmental improvements have priority? – Three Stakeholder Perspectives .39 |
| | 4. Tools/Toolboxes in the Automobile Life Cycle (5 pages)40 |
| | Who is using which tool ?41 |
| | Which toolboxes are used? 44 |
| | What are the problems with which tool? .45 |
| | Which tools might be helpful for which problem/improvement opportunity/life cycle stages? .45 |
| | Creating a toolbox (or in 5?)46 |
| | 5. Linking demand and supply (4 pages) .47 |
| | 6. Organisational aspects (integrating environmental information into the decision making processes |
| | within the organisation) (5 pages) .49 |
| | 7. Towards Sustainability (what is needed for achieving sustainability, partly case specific, partly |
| | generals) (5 pages) 49 |
| | Role of Automobiles in the Sustainable Transportation Scenario.50 |
| | Systems performance/Sustainability Metrics.50 |
| | New strategic projects to be organised by the EU .50 |
| | 8. Research Needs (related to demand and supply, partly case specific, partly general) (2 pages)50 |
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| | References 51 |
| | Additional References.51 |
| | Appendixes.51 |