Entry Date:
June 3, 2009

Fleet-Based Analysis of Life Cycle Assessment in Automobiles

Principal Investigator Richard Roth

Co-investigators Elsa Olivetti , Frank Field , Randolph Kirchain , Joel Clark


This work demonstrated that for some product lines, all the products in use, rather than a single product, should be the appropriate unit of analysis. Such a "fleet�centered" approach supplies a richer perspective on the comparative emissions burdens generated by alternative products, and it eliminates certain simplifying assumptions imposed upon the analysis by a product�centered approach.