ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an environmental assessment model for a particular transportation system chosen as a case study, and apply it to a planning management perspective. It reviews on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of transportation systems in the retrospective form of a chronicle of scientific contributions, and also point out the main centers of knowledge development at the international level. Prominent among these is a course in LCA of transportation systems, in a project-oriented form that offers each promotion of students a real case study in which they can apply LCA to a concrete transportation project. Rail transportation flourished as early as the nineteenth century, and was then joined by automobile and aerial modes in the twentieth century, transforming the world into a global network well equipped with air, sea and rail links, and especially with roads and cars. The 2000s saw the diversification of academic studies for road cases.
