Life cycle engineering of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services
M. Ostermann, E. Dierkes, T. Marten, T. Tröster, Cleaner Engineering and Technology 28 (2025).
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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.
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Cleaner Engineering and Technology
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28
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101058
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Ostermann M, Dierkes E, Marten T, Tröster T. Life cycle engineering of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services. Cleaner Engineering and Technology. 2025;28. doi:10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058
Ostermann, M., Dierkes, E., Marten, T., & Tröster, T. (2025). Life cycle engineering of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services. Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 28, Article 101058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058
@article{Ostermann_Dierkes_Marten_Tröster_2025, title={Life cycle engineering of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services}, volume={28}, DOI={10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058}, number={101058}, journal={Cleaner Engineering and Technology}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Ostermann, Moritz and Dierkes, Eric and Marten, Thorsten and Tröster, Thomas}, year={2025} }
Ostermann, Moritz, Eric Dierkes, Thorsten Marten, and Thomas Tröster. “Life Cycle Engineering of Lightweight Structures in Vehicles for On-Demand Mobility Services.” Cleaner Engineering and Technology 28 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058.
M. Ostermann, E. Dierkes, T. Marten, and T. Tröster, “Life cycle engineering of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services,” Cleaner Engineering and Technology, vol. 28, Art. no. 101058, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058.
Ostermann, Moritz, et al. “Life Cycle Engineering of Lightweight Structures in Vehicles for On-Demand Mobility Services.” Cleaner Engineering and Technology, vol. 28, 101058, Elsevier BV, 2025, doi:10.1016/j.clet.2025.101058.
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