3rd ICAI 2024

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2024

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Declaration for Solaris Urbino 18 electric bus). In accordance with EPD guidelines, environmental analysis were performed for the entire life cycle of the bus, taking into account the stages shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Stages included in the LCA of transport means in accordance with EPD guidelines

Source: own study The scope of the life cycle assessment is very thorough, as it takes into account data and information at every stage of the life cycle of the assessed means of transport. For the purposes of preparing information for environmental declarations, the assessment stages have been divided into three, which are shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: System boundary of environmental analysis in EPDs of the bus

Source: own study based on PCR 2016:04 LCA used to perform the analyzes presented in the EPD includes four stages, including the purpose and scope of the analyses, data inventory, impact assessment, and interpretation. A difficult and complex step is data collection. For the bus life cycle analyses, specific data on the material composition of the Solaris Urbino 18 electric

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