caa a22 4500 60616992X CHVBK 20210128100714.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10098-014-0892-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10098-014-0892-7 Tool for environmental performance assessment of city bus transit operations: case studies [Elektronische Daten] [Miguel Sellitto, Miriam Borchardt, Giancarlo Pereira, Martha Bubicz] The purpose of this article was to present a tool for the assessment of the environmental performance of bus transit operators. The research method was the qualitative modeling. Environmental performance is the result of the environmental management practices adopted by an organization. Environmental performance was hierarchically structured in criteria and indicators. The assessment process produces an overall dimensionless index, a pure number without an associated physical dimension, originated from expert judgments and according to a composition rule. Experts attribute a degree of compliance to expected performance, ranging between 0 and 100% (respectively the worst and the best), to the situation of environmental categorical indicators. Five criteria, apprehended by 32 indicators and prioritized by analytic hierarchy process, were used in the tool: Atmosphere (39%), regarding impacts of the bus operation in air quality; effluents (6%), regarding impacts caused by liquid waste; solid waste (8%), regarding the generation of solids; land use (18%), regarding how the operation uses the land; and natural resources (29%), regarding how efficient the operation is in using natural resources. The tool was tested in six bus transit operations of a Latin America city of about 1,500,000 inhabitants. Indicators were assessed by scales fulfilled by managers of the operations. The overall dimensionless results for the six operators were: 58.96; 53.24; 50.97; 54.07; 47.01; and 37.69% of the maximum possible performance. This numbers represent the degree of global satisfaction of the experts with the environmental results obtained by the operators. For all six operators, the more problematic criterion was Atmosphere. An improvement strategy should focus on it, implementing corrective actions monitored by the indicators of the criteria. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Environmental performance nationallicence Bus transit nationallicence CO2 emissions nationallicence Energy management nationallicence Waste management nationallicence Climate change nationallicence Sellitto Miguel Production and System Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos 950, 93022-000, Sao Leopoldo, RS, Brazil aut Borchardt Miriam Production and System Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos 950, 93022-000, Sao Leopoldo, RS, Brazil aut Pereira Giancarlo Production and System Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos 950, 93022-000, Sao Leopoldo, RS, Brazil aut Bubicz Martha Production and System Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos 950, 93022-000, Sao Leopoldo, RS, Brazil aut Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 17/4(2015-04-01), 1053-1064 1618-954X 17:4<1053 2015 17 10098 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-014-0892-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-014-0892-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sellitto Miguel Production and System Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos 950, 93022-000, Sao Leopoldo, RS, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Borchardt Miriam Production and System Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos 950, 93022-000, Sao Leopoldo, RS, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pereira Giancarlo Production and System Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos 950, 93022-000, Sao Leopoldo, RS, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bubicz Martha Production and System Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Av. Unisinos 950, 93022-000, Sao Leopoldo, RS, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 17/4(2015-04-01), 1053-1064 1618-954X 17:4<1053 2015 17 10098