In rural areas, drones are designed to replace road deliveries so as to overcome infrastructure challenges; though drones notably consume lessfuel and consequently have a smaller impact on the environment, their full ...In rural areas, drones are designed to replace road deliveries so as to overcome infrastructure challenges; though drones notably consume lessfuel and consequently have a smaller impact on the environment, their full life cycle assessment should still be evaluated to comprehensivelyunderstand their environmental impact. This study presents a life cycle assessment study on drone delivery in Thailand using CML2001, the lifecycle impact assessment （LCIA） method, to convert life cycle inventory data into environmental impacts. The observed results show that anonline shopping system using drone delivery is one of the most environmentally friendly transportation options throughout a wide range ofscenarios. However, the parts production contributed to significant impacts on environmental issues while the drone operation showed the leastimpact to all impact categories. The dominant contributors to global warming, abiotic depletion （ADP elements and fossil）, acidification air,eutrophication, ozone layer depletion, and photochemical ozone creation impact categories were the coal mining and electricity generatingstation operation. However, the carbon fibers and the battery, are the main contributors to other impact categories, which include the humantoxicity, freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity, marine aquatic ecotoxicity, and terrestric ecotoxicity.展开更多
文摘In rural areas, drones are designed to replace road deliveries so as to overcome infrastructure challenges; though drones notably consume lessfuel and consequently have a smaller impact on the environment, their full life cycle assessment should still be evaluated to comprehensivelyunderstand their environmental impact. This study presents a life cycle assessment study on drone delivery in Thailand using CML2001, the lifecycle impact assessment （LCIA） method, to convert life cycle inventory data into environmental impacts. The observed results show that anonline shopping system using drone delivery is one of the most environmentally friendly transportation options throughout a wide range ofscenarios. However, the parts production contributed to significant impacts on environmental issues while the drone operation showed the leastimpact to all impact categories. The dominant contributors to global warming, abiotic depletion （ADP elements and fossil）, acidification air,eutrophication, ozone layer depletion, and photochemical ozone creation impact categories were the coal mining and electricity generatingstation operation. However, the carbon fibers and the battery, are the main contributors to other impact categories, which include the humantoxicity, freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity, marine aquatic ecotoxicity, and terrestric ecotoxicity.
