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Freight and logistics, as mentioned by the European Parliament, are “important sectors in National and European frameworks in the scope of mitigation and adaptation to climate change, as they represent the second large reason of GHG emissions”. In this context, Electric Fuel Vehicles (EFVs) are a promising alternative to conventional trucks for several reasons such as: improvement of vehicle energy consumption, improvement of air quality in urban areas, promotion of integration with renewable sources and accessibility to Limited Traffic Zones (LTZ) areas. A key research topic in EFVs is modeling their energy consumption and related routing and operational choices. Notably, to the authors’ knowledge, there are just a few studies in this respect so far. Leveraging the Virginia Tech Comprehensive Power-based EV Energy consumption Model (VT-CPEM) for passenger electric vehicles developed by the first author, this paper aims at filling this gap, thanks to a collaboration with a logistics company performing urban pickup/delivery operations with EFVs in the city center of Rome: this represents one of the few real-world data acquisition on EFVs. On the one hand, this enables a data analysis targeted to characterize EFVs performance in urban delivery; on the other, it allows the development of a simulation model for energy consumption and state-of-charge (SOC) level as a function of vehicle characteristics and its actual speed profile. Results show that current truck weight, maximum speed, average deceleration and standard deviation of decelerations are the factors the mainly impact on the EFV energy consumption.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT025 Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation.

18-02108

English

6p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Maps; References; Tables

Case studies; Delivery service; Electric vehicles; Energy consumption; Freight transportation; Simulation; Trucks; Urban areas

Rome (Italy)

Energy; Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-02108

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:31AM