Lisbon Public-Transport Asset Lifecycle: Business Model and Market Hypotheses

The Lisbon business-model work examines resource retention across vehicle procurement, service life and end-of-life recovery. The operational context is the CARRIS bus fleet, where maintenance requirements, energy use and vehicle availability need to be considered together with circularity objectives. The pilot monitors 15 buses across diesel, natural-gas and electric technologies and investigates the reuse of components from retiring vehicles. TRACK connects operational and maintenance information with dashboards and the project data infrastructure. This provides a basis for examining how a circular intervention relates to actual fleet activity. Recovered components, authorised recycling and procurement requirements represent connected but distinct parts of the lifecycle model. The current business and financial work establishes assumptions to be tested using pilot operating information. Cost feasibility, pricing and the value proposition are to be refined through bottom-up validation. Financial-analysis and investment-planning activities build on this evidence, while exploitation work considers the ownership, market position and use of project results.