[PDF] Top 20 INFLUENCE OF VEHICLE PROCUREMENT ON THE VEHICLE FLEET ENERGY EFFICIENCY

... the energy efficiency of their own vehicle fleets through the procurement of vehicles that possess technological improvements on the engine such as: compressed air injection, selective ... See full document

... Helen Burnie is a senior environment officer with Blacktown City Council. Her focus is sustainability, especially climate change policy and its implementation. She gained her PhD in environmental studies from University ... See full document

... the vehicle, the majority of installations have no technical facility to distinguish between plug-in time and the beginning of the charging ...significant influence on overall trends, indicating that ... See full document

... the energy demand of the light vehicle fleet, lessening the reliance on foreign oil and reducing the impact of episodes of supply uncertainty and price shocks such as witnessed in ...the ... See full document

... reduce energy consumption and emissions, but found that cost- efficiency remained ...the fleet of public taxis in Beijing, ranking items like emissions, cost, and policy ... See full document

... associated fleet energy requirements and greenhouse gas ...the vehicle fleet and market developed by the European Commission Joint Research ...specific efficiency and emissions, second ... See full document

... vehicles, energy in- tensity of traffic constitutes smaller part of the consumed energy than in the case of combustion vehicles [12, ...to energy loss. Fig. 1 shows the energy bal- ance of the ... See full document

... As a result extensive research and development is devoted to finding alternative fuels for our engines and develop technology to improve the efficiency of current systems. There is much promise in electrical ... See full document

... for vehicle routing problem with limited capacity and more generally for the heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing ...capacitated vehicle routing problems (CVRP), then we expose the ... See full document

... Recommendation 5.1. Tyres - US has adopted tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) on all passenger cars, multipurpose vehicles, trucks and buses since 2007. EU integrated tires as part of the EU’s integrated approach to ... See full document

... Today automobile industry is known for more expanding industry. As the population is goes on increasing the requirement of vehicle is also increasing in proportion. Their many types of automobile vehicles are ... See full document

... a serious impact on global warming. As reported by the Ministry of Transport (2012), this sector is responsible for 15% of all CO 2 emissions in the Czech Republic, of which individual transport accounts for 52.71% of ... See full document

... Electric vehicles are a good example o f how to reduce energy consumption and prevent pollu­ tion. Because o f these two reasons the development o f electric vehicle technology has taken on an accelerated ... See full document

... heavy vehicle under various heavy vehicle categories, travel speeds and gross vehicle weights ...incorporates vehicle dynamics, is to generate the minimum safe time gap (MSTG) for ... See full document

... Typically, vehicles are evaluated in predefined procedures with static driving cycles. Today this is done by the WLTP. This procedure contains fixed system boundaries and conditions under which the vehicles emissions are ... See full document

... the influence of leaking on the share of usefully transferred heat from flue gases to water and water vapour, which can be used to analyse any state in the air ...characteristic influence on the temperature ... See full document

... The solution was presented on three demonstrative in- stances. The first case is close to real ratio of vehicle costs (proportional cost per vehicle L (10) and vehicle S (6)). Furthermore, also ... See full document

... downstream. Shifting the separation point downstream enables the expanded airflow to persist proportionately longer, the flow velocity at the separation point to become slower, and consequently the static pressure to ... See full document

... If driver is drowsy or alcoholic accident causes. Driver sleepiness is perceived as a vital variable in the vehicle accidents. Driving performance crumbles with increased sluggishness results in more than 30% of ... See full document

... Our approach for the proposed modification to the Clarke-Wright Algorithm is primarily focused on adopting parallel version of CW. According to Toth and Vigo, parallel version of CW algorithm provides better results than ... See full document