Advancing from efﬁciency to sustainability in Swedish medium-sized cities -an approach for recommending powertrains and energy carriers for public bus transport systems

Some see the possibility to move beyond a narrow focus on efﬁciency or carbon dioxide reductions towards an integrated sustainability perspective. This paper uses this perspective to build and test a new assessment approach that should enhance decisions on bus transport powertrains and energy carriers for Swedish medium-sized cities. The study suggests that a superiority of electric powertrains is revealed if a traditional economic analysis is integrated with a strategic sustainability perspective.

Published as: Nurhadi, L., Borén, S. & Ny, H., 2014. Advancing from Efﬁciency to Sustainability in Swedish Medium-sized Cities: An Approach for Recommending Powertrains and Energy Carriers for Public Bus Transport Systems. In Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences. pp. 586–595.

Bus priority lists based on result of current life cycle costs vs. sustanability

Advancing from efﬁciency to sustainability in Swedish medium-sized cities – -an approach for recommending powertrains and energy carriers for public bus transport systems