Development of environmental performance evaluation tool for EPD of railway vehicle

초록

Request for objective environmental performance of the product is being increased because quality of life is better than the past. Furthermore, strong requirement of the green growth and sustainable development over the world including environmental regulation and standard, ISO 14064, EuP, WEEE and so on, are also another reason. Under these current situations, Railway industry cannot stay and sustain its better position any more than other transportation industry. Most of the industry except Railway industry is struggling to develop its product more environmentally friendly and get the 3rd party certification like Eco-labeling and Carbon footprint. Although Railway vehicles are more complicate than other product, advanced railway manufacturer, Bombardier, Siemens and so on, did get the certification yet. To get environmental certification, LCA method has to be applied because life cycle approach is needed to respond current environmental requirement. The purpose of this project is to facilitate railway vehicle manufacturer obtaining the environmental certification termed Korea EPD. By doing so, the environmental performance evaluation tool would be developed and modeled within the LCA framework and therefore applied especially for rail vehicle such as Korea tilting train express (TTX). In order to conduct this project systematically, involvement parties i.e. certified body, LCA research team, rail manufacture and rail institute are collaborated. The period of this project is scheduled to 2011 from 2009.