TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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 isused 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 lifecycle engineering activities for lightweight structures in mobility system applications.
AU  - Ostermann, Moritz
AU  - Dierkes, Erik
AU  - Marten, Thorsten
AU  - Tröster, Thomas
DO  - 10.17619/UNIPB/1-2468
PB  - Universitätsbibliothek
DP  - Universität Paderborn
LA  - eng
PY  - 2025
SN  - 2666-7908
SP  - 1 Online-Ressource (Seite 1-26) : Illustrationen, Diagramme
T2  - Cleaner Engineering and Technology
TI  - Life cycle engineering of lightweight structures in vehicles for on-demand mobility services
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:466:2-56905
Y2  - 2026-01-12T23:45:41
ER  -