Development of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Tool for Municipal Fleets

The City of Surrey has about 500 vehicles in its municipal fleet, ranging from light-duty passenger vehicles to heavy-duty commercial vehicles or trucks. Because of increasing political and public pressure to reduce carbon footprint from municipal fleets, the City is interested in finding viable low-carbon alternative fuel vehicles to their conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles. In this regard, the City wants to undertake a holistic and pragmatic approach to evaluate low-carbon alternative fuel vehicles that can meet or exceed their end goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fleet vehicles by 20% by the year 2020. The proposed research aims to develop a unique customized lifecycle analysis modeling tool to assess alternative and conventional fuel vehicles, and provide unbiased info based on which vehicle procurement decisions can be made.

Faculty Supervisor:

Erik Kjeang

Student:

Partner:

City of Surrey

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Simon Fraser University

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