Preliminary Life Cycle Assessment for Circular Design Strategies: A Case Study on Velomobile Production

To introduce in urban mobility some innovative vehicles like the velomobiles a systematic approach to investigate their Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)is required, especially for issues related to manufacturing. This vehicle is quite new a any standard approaches to measure and demonstrate its sustainability has not been defined yet. This study sets up practical approach to that evaluation, basing assumptions upon soome public data shared by a manufacturer who is going to introduce to market a prototype of commercial velomible. The LCA helps in defining several metrics for sustainability for that test case even resorting to some “mid-point” indicators.This contribution defines a path to design the velombile fulfilling requirements of sustainability and regenartion according to the eco and circular design, respectively.