Electrification of mobility exceeds personal transport to increasingly focus on particular segments such as city logistics and taxis. These commercial mobility segments have different motives to purchase a full electric vehicle and require a particul...
This paper presents a cost optimal model of electric vehicle taxi systems based on the cost of electric vehicle taxi companies, charging or battery swap stations, passengers’ time, and emission costs. Considering the requirement of meeting passengers...
With the growing maturity of electric vehicles technology and the increase in environmental awareness, electric vehicles have emerged as a feasible way to reduce carbon emissions due to transportation. In response, numerous cities have adopted electr...
The battery-electric taxis have the features of larger mass, low operating noise, and great speed, and the drivers of battery-electric taxis have various driving behaviors and low safety awareness, which leads to higher safety risks. In the paper, th...
In 2013, the first electric taxis were launched in Hong Kong. In 2021, the HKSAR government announced that no new registration of fuel-propelled private cars, including hybrid vehicles, will be granted by the year 2035. Local public policies have sho...
Taxi fleets operate intensively, accumulate high annual mileage, and contribute disproportionately to urban greenhouse gas emissions, making them attractive candidates for transport electrification. Despite growing interest in electric mobility, inte...
With the emergence of joint business operations involving electric vehicle taxis (EVTs) and charging/swapping stations (CSSTs), a unified decision-making method has become essential for an EVT to select both the driving path and the energy acquisitio...
Traditional fuel-powered vehicle emissions have long been recognized as a major barrier to a sustainable environment, and their minimization could ensure both economic support for the sustainable societal fundament and pollution prevention. Electrify...
In order to effectively solve the problem of electric taxi charging load prediction and reasonable charging behaviour discrimination, in this paper, we use taxi GPS trajectory data to mine the probability of operation behaviour in each area of the ci...
Optimizing battery swapping station (BSS) configuration is essential to enhance BSS’s energy savings and economic feasibility, thereby facilitating energy refueling efficiency of electric taxis (ETs). This study proposes a novel modular battery...
Progressive advancements in the global economy and technology have propelled human civilization forward; however, they have also inflicted significant harm on the global ecological environment. In the present era, electric vehicle (EV) technology is...
This paper reports on the UK’s first public trial of wireless power transfer (WPT) for electric taxis at a live taxi rank in Nottingham, UK. Across a four-month testing period, 18 professional drivers individually spent four weeks using WPT-ena...
In view of the practical application requirements for the rapid expansion of electric taxis (ETs) and the reasonable planning of charging stations, this paper presents a method for mining latent semantic correlation of large data by the trajectory of...
The environmental crisis has prompted the development of electric vehicles as a green and environmentally friendly mode of travel. Since a reasonable layout of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations is the prerequisite for developing the EV industry...
Regarding the decision to opt for vehicles with electric propulsion systems to achieve a sustainable future, much research has focused on the electrification of passenger cars, since this class of vehicles is the largest contributor of greenhouse gas...
This study presents models for estimating the charging time and travel time in autonomous electric taxi systems, based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) deep learning methods. In addition to these models, two classical t...
Electric taxis are of great benefit to reduce urban polluting gas emissions. Currently, there is a problem of uneven utilization among charging stations in the battery swapping activities of electric taxis, resulting in long battery swapping times fo...
Given the semi-private nature of the mode, the conversion of taxi vehicles to electric requires a feasibility analysis, as it can impact their operations and revenues. In this research, we assess the feasibility of taxi companies in Santiago de Chile...
The shift to electric vehicles has brought about the potential to reduce the environmental damage caused by road transport. However, several challenges prevent wider adoption of electric vehicles, such as: a lack of charging facilities, long charging...
Currently, electric taxis have been deployed in many cities of China. However, the charging unbalance in both temporal and spatial scale has become a rising problem, which leads to low charging efficiency or charging congestion in different stations...
Nowadays, sustainability-related issues have attracted growing attention due to fossil fuel depletion and environmental concerns. Considering many cities have gradually replaced taxis with electric vehicles (EVs), to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a...
Minibus taxis are Cape Town’s ubiquitous public transport mode, carrying about 69% of public transport users. As electric mobility accelerates, the implications of electrifying this paratransit fleet must be quantified. We present a multi-persp...
Planning for the eventual electrification of transport in sub-Saharan Africa requires accurate simulation of its unique transport systems. The few studies that attempt to model electric minibus taxis—vehicles extensively used in sub-Saharan Afr...
The reasonable layout of charging stations is an important measure to improve the penetration rate of the electric taxi market. Based on the multi-type clustering algorithm, a widely applicable electric taxi charging stations locating method is propo...
Battery swapping station (BSS) technology can provide electric taxis (ETs) with more economical and high-efficiency operating services. However, the battery-swapping market needs to be more organized due to unpredictable swapping periods for ETs, res...
For realizing sustainable development, EV (Electric Vehicle) is currently considered as one of the most promising alternative due to its cleanness and inexhaustibility. However, the development and dissemination of EV has stagnated because it faces m...
Simulation is a cornerstone of planning and facilitating the transition towards electric mobility in sub-Saharan Africa’s informal public transport. The primary objective of this study is to validate and refine the electro-kinetic model used to...
High battery swapping demand from electric taxis and drivers’ subjective station selection often leads to congestion and the uneven utilization of battery swapping stations (BSSs). Efficient vehicle guidance is essential for improving the opera...
Urban air mobility (UAM) enabled by electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft presents an innovative transportation system for mega-cities. An analysis of the techno-economic feasibility of eVTOL air taxis can provide insights into the...
Despite the unstoppable global drive towards electric mobility, the electrification of sub-Saharan Africa’s ubiquitous informal multi-passenger minibus taxis raises substantial concerns. This is due to a constrained electricity system, both in...
The market for electric vehicles (EVs) has grown with each year, and EVs are considered to be a proper solution for the mitigation of urban pollution. So far, not much attention has been devoted to the use of EVs for public transportation, such as ta...
The inevitable electrification of the sub-Saharan African paratransit system poses substantial threats to an already crippled electricity supply network. The integration of any electric vehicle fleet in this region will require in-depth analyses and...
The transition from ICE to BEV taxis is one of the most important methods for reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution in cities such as Bangkok. To support this transition, an adequate number of charging stations to cover each area of char...
Decarbonizing the transport sector is crucial for achieving global carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. Electric taxis (e-taxis), which play a vital role in urban public transportation, are central to this transition. However, their operationa...
Electric vehicles are becoming more important in our society. Using them in a fleet to minimize energy cost is, therefore, a compelling opportunity for taxi companies. It is crucial to develop accurate models that estimate energy consumption for trav...
Over the past few years, the rapid growth of air traffic and the associated increase in emissions have created a need for sustainable aviation. Motivated by these challenges, this paper explores how a 50-passenger regional aircraft can be hybridized...
Boda boda motorbike taxis are a primary mode of transport in Nairobi, Kenya, and a major source of urban air pollution. This study investigates the environmental and electrical grid impacts of electrifying Nairobi’s boda boda fleet. Using real-...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are gradually addressing the environmental problem in cities created by internal combustion vehicles. However, to be widely used, a major challenge will still have to be tackled. Some significant challenges are the resistance...
In recent decades, urban air pollution has increased considerably in Mexico City, leading to harmful effects on the ecosystem. To reduce pollutant emissions, new sustainable technologies have been adopted in the transport sector. To date, no studies...
This paper presents an integrated validation framework for EV taxi charging-hub plans that combines spatial accessibility, grid deployability, and operational performance. Candidate hub configurations are first generated through a demand-weighted p-m...
The present investigation addresses the topic of Urban Air Mobility with particular reference to the air-taxi service with electrified power systems. A new and detailed methodology is proposed for the simplified design and energy analysis of conventi...
Airport operations significantly contribute to air pollution in their vicinity through various sources, including aircraft activities—particularly taxiing and take-off—as well as ground support equipment, service vehicles, and maintenance...
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Recently, developing sustainable public transportation systems has been highlighted by decision makers and transportation agencies, due to the development of urban areas and the related environmental problems. Implementing new vehicle technologies ha...
Reducing fuel consumption and emissions of aircrafts during taxiing on airport surfaces is crucial to decrease the operating costs of airline companies and construct green airports. At present, relevant studies have barely investigated the influences...
This paper took a new energy vehicle feedback system as the research object, aiming to study the energy recovery law of the new energy vehicle under braking feedback and taxiing feedback conditions. Firstly, the braking energy feedback control strate...
Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, is one of the most developed and expansive cities. Due to the ongoing development and expansion of Bangkok, urbanization has continued to expand into adjacent provinces, creating the Bangkok Metropolitan Region...
In a collaboration led by hydrogen fuel cell developer Intelligent Energy, a fleet of classic London cabs fitted out with hydrogen fuel cell power systems will be produced, with the objective of having a small fleet ready for full road trials in time...
Taxis play a crucial role as an on-demand transportation mode in developing countries due to perceived inefficiencies of cities’ public transportation systems. However, studies on the locational distribution of taxis in urban areas are limited,...
The fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission patterns of taxis are in accordance with the urban structure and daily travel footprints of residents. With taxi trajectory data from the intelligent transportation system in Xi’an, China,...
The recent expansion of mass public transit in Bangkok has increased demand for public motorcycle taxis as a first- and last-mile solution for sustainable urban mobility. This study presents the results of a real-world demonstration project that tran...
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