Towards Reduced Environmental Burden of Mobility: Improving

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ID Leiden University, Centre of Environmental Science, The Netherlands

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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



References 51

Additional References.51

Appendixes.51