The Potential of New Vehicle Concepts For Transport Optimization and GHG Emission Reduction in Urban Areas Graz University of Technology

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Brunner, Brunner, author.

Contributor:

Hirz, Mario

Conference Name:

SAE 2014 World Congress & Exhibition (2014-04-08 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2014

Summary:

AbstractIncreasing urbanization, the growing degree of motorization and traffic performance in urban areas and environmental aspects like greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are the motivation for a detailed analysis of personal individual mobility in urban areas, which is presented in this study.In the first step, the publication examines a study of market potential of new small and lightweight vehicle concepts. A mobility inquiry conducted in a mid-sized European city enables an estimation of the potential user groups for alternative vehicle concepts for individual urban traffic.In a second step, the CO2 reduction potential of urban car concepts is simulated for a generic vehicle fleet. This fleet consists of conventional vehicles of various classes (subcompact, compact, mid-sized ) as well as new lightweight urban car concepts. A novel vehicle concept for urban transportation will be presented as well.A comparison with the simulation results of a conventional vehicle fleet shows the potential regarding CO2-reduction and a reduction of parking space by application of future-oriented vehicle concepts. In this way, the publication enables a discussion of the impact of environmental friendly propulsion systems in combination with new, variable vehicle architectures on future city traffic

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Publisher Number:

2014-01-1005

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license