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_id: '60885'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: To reduce transport-related environmental impacts, innovative mobility system
    approaches such as on-demand services are being developed. These can include operating
    vehicles that differ regarding their characteristics and application profile from
    privately owned cars in motorized individual transport. Studies on life cycle
    assessment and life cycle engineering of vehicle lightweight structures are mainly
    limited to these privately owned cars and the impact category of climate change.
    In this paper, a method for life cycle assessment-based engineering of lightweight
    structures in vehicles for various mobility system applications, including on-demand
    mobility services, is developed. The method enables the holistic life cycle assessment
    of lightweight structures in different mobility system applications considering
    parameter changes at the upstream products, component, subsystem, vehicle and
    mobility system levels, as well as the integration of results into engineering
    activities. A case study is used to show that the vehicle and mobility system
    application of lightweight structures can significantly influence their environmental
    impacts and the selection of ecologically preferable product designs. The application
    in vehicles for on-demand mobility services can lead to an increase in absolute
    use stage energy demand and environmental impacts compared to applications in
    privately owned vehicles for motorized individual transport. However, normalized
    to the transport performance provided, the lifecycle environmental impacts of
    structural components in vehicles for on-demand mobility services can be lower
    than in vehicles for motorized individual transport. The paper contributes methodically
    and with quantitative results to improved decision making in life cycle engineering
    activities for lightweight structures in mobility system applications.
article_number: '101058'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Moritz
  full_name: Ostermann, Moritz
  id: '44763'
  last_name: Ostermann
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1146-0443
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Dierkes, Eric
  last_name: Dierkes
- first_name: Thorsten
  full_name: Marten, Thorsten
  id: '338'
  last_name: Marten
  orcid: 0009-0001-6433-7839
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Tröster, Thomas
  id: '553'
  last_name: Tröster
citation:
  ama: Ostermann M, Dierkes E, Marten T, Tröster T. Life cycle engineering of lightweight
    structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services. <i>Cleaner Engineering
    and Technology</i>. 2025;28. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058">10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058</a>
  apa: Ostermann, M., Dierkes, E., Marten, T., &#38; Tröster, T. (2025). Life cycle
    engineering of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services.
    <i>Cleaner Engineering and Technology</i>, <i>28</i>, Article 101058. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Ostermann_Dierkes_Marten_Tröster_2025, title={Life cycle engineering
    of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services}, volume={28},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058">10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058</a>},
    number={101058}, journal={Cleaner Engineering and Technology}, publisher={Elsevier
    BV}, author={Ostermann, Moritz and Dierkes, Eric and Marten, Thorsten and Tröster,
    Thomas}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Ostermann, Moritz, Eric Dierkes, Thorsten Marten, and Thomas Tröster. “Life
    Cycle Engineering of Lightweight Structures in Vehicles for On-Demand Mobility
    Services.” <i>Cleaner Engineering and Technology</i> 28 (2025). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058</a>.
  ieee: 'M. Ostermann, E. Dierkes, T. Marten, and T. Tröster, “Life cycle engineering
    of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services,” <i>Cleaner
    Engineering and Technology</i>, vol. 28, Art. no. 101058, 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058">10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058</a>.'
  mla: Ostermann, Moritz, et al. “Life Cycle Engineering of Lightweight Structures
    in Vehicles for On-Demand Mobility Services.” <i>Cleaner Engineering and Technology</i>,
    vol. 28, 101058, Elsevier BV, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058">10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058</a>.
  short: M. Ostermann, E. Dierkes, T. Marten, T. Tröster, Cleaner Engineering and
    Technology 28 (2025).
date_created: 2025-08-06T06:53:27Z
date_updated: 2025-08-07T06:41:28Z
department:
- _id: '9'
- _id: '321'
- _id: '149'
doi: 10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058
intvolume: '        28'
keyword:
- Life cycle assessment
- Life cycle engineering
- Lightweight design
- On-demand mobility
- Shared mobility
- Mobility services
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666790825001818?via%3Dihub
oa: '1'
project:
- _id: '780'
  grant_number: 19S23003Q
  name: 'NeMobil: NeMo.bil – System kooperierender Fahrzeuge für einen individualisierten
    Öffentlichen Verkehr'
- _id: '405'
  grant_number: '005-2111-0020 '
  name: 'Climate bOWL: Climate bOWL: Climate neutral Business in Ostwestfalen-Lippe'
publication: Cleaner Engineering and Technology
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2666-7908
publication_status: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Life cycle engineering of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand
  mobility services
type: journal_article
user_id: '44763'
volume: 28
year: '2025'
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