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Green Logistics and Transportation
Published in Matthew N. O. Sadiku, Emerging Green Technologies, 2020
Electric vehicles: These are a key to future clean, green transportation system. A green vehicle (or eco-friendly vehicle) is the vehicle that produces less harmful impact on the environment than conventional vehicles running on gasoline or diesel. Green vehicles can be powered by renewable sources of energy such as wind, solar, biofuels, and hydroelectricity. Electric vehicle charging is a major issue for the massive production of electric vehicles. Electric cars come with a new type of charging station. Major automobile industries worldwide are developing their strategies for wireless charging technologies. The high costs of electric vehicles, charging stations, and associated infrastructure are challenging.
Short- and mid-term evaluation of the use of electric vehicles in urban freight transport collaborative networks: a case study
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2019
Andrés Muñoz-Villamizar, Carlos L. Quintero-Araújo, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Javier Faulin
Furthermore, the use of electric vehicles in the context of GVRP represents a promising opportunity for reducing costs and pollution caused by transportation. Despite the fact that some limitations, such as high costs, have hampered their diffusion, there is continuous technological progress to improve them (Felipe et al. 2014; Feng and Figliozzi 2012). As pointed out by Arslan, Yildiz, and Karasan (2015), the usage of electric vehicles in the logistic operations led to several new problems flourishing in the literature such as pollution-routing problem (Bektas and Laporte 2011; Demir, Bektas, and Laporte 2014a; Franceschetti et al. 2013; Koç et al., 2014), green-vehicle routing problem (Erdogan and Miller-Hook 2012; Cirovic, Pamucar, and Boanic 2014; Felipe et al. 2014; Jabir, Panicker, and Sridharan 2015), location optimisation of alternative fuel stations (Yıldız, Arslan, and Karasßan 2015), and mixed-fleet routing problems (Schneider, Stenger, and Goeke 2014; Goeke and Schneider 2015). These studies establish the environmental and operational impacts of electric vehicles from the logistics perspective. As pointed out by Lin et al. (2014), GVRP has recently arisen in the literature with a continuing need of enriching the related studies either through theoretical contributions or by real applications.
Heterogeneous preferences of green vehicles by vehicle size: Analysis of Seoul case
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2018
Jin-Seok Hahn, Jang-Ho Lee, Keechoo Choi
Due in part to the Paris Agreement, the Korean government set and announced a voluntary goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 37% from the business-as-usual (BAU) level by 2030. The nationwide reduction goal of 37% is to be reached by reductions of 34.4% in the transport sector. For the transport sector, key reduction methods are to reorganize the traffic system with a focus on public transportation, green vehicles,1A green vehicle means a road motor vehicle that produces less harmful impacts to the environment than comparable conventional internal combustion engine vehicles. Green vehicles in this paper include hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and battery electric vehicles. On the other hand, a zero-emission vehicle is a vehicle that emits no exhaust gas from the on-board source of power. Examples of zero emission vehicles include muscle-powered vehicles such as bicycles, electric bicycles, battery electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles powered by hydrogen. and bicycles. Specifically, it has set a goal of having 20% of new car sales be green vehicles by 2020. However, even though several policies have been established to promote the sales of green vehicles and there is an increased interest in more environmentally friendly transportation technologies, green vehicles have yet to penetrate the market to the extent desired. For fiscal year 2015, only 2.5% of vehicle sales were green vehicles (Hahn, Gong, Park, & Song, 2015).
Hybrid electric vehicle routing problem with mode selection
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2020
Lu Zhen, Ziheng Xu, Chengle Ma, Liyang Xiao
Under the current shortage of petroleum resources and the requirement of sustainable development, finding new sources of energy instead of traditional fuel has become an international consensus. Under the environment of vigorously developing low-carbon economy, green logistics has become one of the important directions for the development of the modern logistics industry. According to relevant investigations, 60%-70% of CO and 40% of NOx in the air come from automobile exhaust. The International Energy Agency reported that China’s carbon emissions in 2015 were 618 tons, equivalent to 2% of the world’s fuel emissions (Wu et al. 2017). Therefore, energy savings and emission reductions of automobiles will play a key role in solving the air pollution problem. Green vehicle routing problem has emerged, with the goal of reducing fuel consumption and reducing carbon emissions by deploying conventional or alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) in transportation and logistics activities (Erdoğan and Elise,2012). Different from conventional vehicles, AFVs are powered by greener fuel sources, namely, biodiesel, natural gas, electricity, etc. For example, electric commercial vehicles (ECVs) can significantly reduce fuel consumption and reduce carbon emissions from logistics activities and thus they have outstanding environmental advantages. However, their overall industrial development is not yet mature, and they are limited to technologies such as fuel batteries. The problems of short distances and high cost have not yet been solved. As a transition product and a tradeoff between traditional products and ECVs, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have become a global hot spot for the development of new environmental vehicles. HEVs have strong development prospects and market potential.