Transport Service Electrification in Developing Countries

Considering the new stringent constraints proposed by public authorities, decarbonization became a key trend in the last years. Transport sector still represents one of the most pollutant fragment. Even if several countries start their process of decarbonization through the introduction of several Electric Vehicles in their public services, still, for several countries, especially the developing ones, transportation represents a hard to abate sector, which generally uses outdated and pollutant vehicles, discouraging the use of public transport and facilitating the creation of traffic congestions. Basing on these considerations, this work want to implement a simulation for a public service in a developing country, evaluating if it is possible to perform a long trip using an electric minibus. Therefore, a case study will be implemented highlighting the barriers of the transport electrification in this area, producing results on consumption and reliability of the service. Finally, an environmentally sustainable solution to power the service will be proposed to highlight the potential of electrification in the area

Water Transport Decarbonization: Preliminary Case Study in Venice

In order to improve the current existing water public transport service, this paper aims to electrification of water taxis in Venice, a widely used means of transportation in the lagoon city by tourists. In particular, the section that connects San Marco square to Marco Polo airport, which is the one with the longest distance, is analyzed. Following a brief introduction to landscape water transport and its infrastructure in the city of Venice, this paper presents the modeling of the electric water taxi taking into account the needs and peculiarities of the boat and of the city itself. Subsequently, an agent-based approach using the AnyLogic software tool simulates the round trip, calculating energy consumption and analyzing the state of charge profile

Literature Review on Wireless Charging Technologies: Future Trend for Electric Vehicle?

Transportation is considered as the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Recently, many European countries and the World Health organization (WHO) have passed laws to reduce road vehicles emissions, which are responsible for 60.7% of European road transport air pollution. The electrification of vehicles required various charging infrastructure options. One of the state-of-the-art technologies is dynamic wireless charging systems (to deliver energy to the EV in motion). Thus, this paper summarizes distinct static and dynamic wireless charging technologies for electric vehicles. Analyzing different wireless power transfers and their limitations shows that the static wireless charging stations in house garages or open parking lots and dynamic charging infrastructures in smart roads or highway-charging lanes will be promising solutions in the near future to make electric vehicle charging easier or without making stops for recharging