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2015

Industrial Engineering

University of Central Florida

Life cycle sustainability assessment; multi criteria decision making; sustainable transportation; electric vehicles

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A Macro-Level Sustainability Assessment Framework For Optimal Distribution Of Alternative Passenger Vehicles, Nuri Onat Jan 2015

A Macro-Level Sustainability Assessment Framework For Optimal Distribution Of Alternative Passenger Vehicles, Nuri Onat

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Although there are many studies focusing on the environmental impacts of alternative vehicle options, social and economic dimensions and trade-off relationships among all of these impacts were not investigated sufficiently. Moreover, most economic analyses are limited to life cycle cost analyses and do not consider macro-level economic impacts. Therefore, this thesis aims to advance the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment literature and electric vehicle sustainability research by presenting a novel combined application of Multi Criteria Decision Making techniques with Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for decision analysis. With this motivation in mind, this research will construct a compromise-programming model (multi-objective optimization method) …