The estimation of the efficiency of road transport vehicles remains a significant problem for contemporary transport companies, as numerous stochastic impacts, such as demand stochasticity, road conditions uncertainty, transport market fluctuations,...
Previous studies have suggested that the use of high-capacity transportation (HCT) can lead to low-carbon road-transportation in the forest industry. This study shows the impacts (in terms of energy efficiency) of a three-year adaptation process of t...
This study focuses on the problem of the efficient energy management of an independent fleet of freight electric vehicles (EVs) providing service to a city multi-floor manufacturing cluster (CMFMC) within a metropolis while considering the requiremen...
The rate of technological progress is an important metric used for predicting the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of future light-duty fleets. A trade-off between efficiency and performance is essential due to its implications on fuel...
Background: Despite the widespread adoption of IoT and LTE technologies in logistics, empirical research quantifying the economic impact of preventing operational errors remains scarce. Methods: This paper presents a case study of a Bulgarian transpo...
Nowadays the spread of precision forestry has led to the possibility of collecting data related to forest machines for an extended period and with enough precision to support decisions in the optimization of harvesting strategies in terms of technolo...
Raising awareness among young people and changing their behaviour and habits concerning energy usage is key to achieving sustained energy saving. Additionally, young people are very sensitive to environmental protection so raising awareness among chi...
This paper proposes a combination method of longitudinal control and fuel management for an intelligent Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) fleet. This method can reduce the fuel consumption while maintaining the distance and speed for each vehicle in the...
Lake Victoria, which is shared by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, faces escalating concerns over sustainable fisheries amidst expanding fishing efforts. This study aims to investigate how technical efficiency (TE) and labor productivity (LP) of the Nile...
This paper presents the development of fleet management software for mobile robots, including AGV and AMR technologies, within the scope of a case study from the GreenAuto project. The system was designed to integrate position and status data from di...
The efficient vehicle procurement is an important business segment of different companies with their own vehicle fleet. It has a significant influence on reducing transport and maintenance costs and on increasing the fleet’s energy efficiency....
Rapid technology advances have made managing charging loads and optimizing routes for electric vehicle (EV) fleets, especially in cities, increasingly important. IoT sensors in EV charging stations and cars enhance prediction and optimization algorit...
The objective of the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Controlled Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project” is to conduct an integrated field validation that simultaneously examines the performance of fuel cell vehicles and t...
This paper presents the initial steps taken in analysing the benefits of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs), especially Modular Autonomous Vehicles (MAVs), in search of sustainable solutions for reducing energy consumption per passenger in air tran...
Camera-based mirror systems (CBMSs) are a relatively new technology in the automotive industry, and much of the United States’ medium- and heavy-duty commercial fleet has been reluctant to convert from standard glass, or “west coast&rdquo...
The selection of an appropriate mining method, along with the corresponding machinery, is a crucial and highly strategic decision in the field of mining engineering. This decision directly influences the efficiency, safety, and economic viability of...
The European air traffic sector underwent significant disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by a complex recovery phase. Throughout this period, the decarbonization of aviation remained a strategic priority for EU institutions and regulat...
Diesel engines of the vehicles in the transport sector are responsible for most of the CO2 emissions into the environment. An alternative to reduce fuel consumption is to promote efficient driving techniques. The aim of this paper is to assess the im...
This paper addresses the critical challenge of energy management for autonomous robots in the context of large-scale photovoltaic parks. The dynamic and vast nature of these environments, characterized by dense, structured rows of solar panels, intro...
This paper primarily investigates enhanced object detection techniques for indoor service mobile robots. Robot operating systems (ROS) supply rich sensor data, which boost the models’ ability to generalize. However, the model’s performanc...
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) conducts fleet data collection and analysis activities for advanced technology vehicles, including Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV), as part of the US DOE’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA). In 2009,...
This paper aims to contribute to the urgent reflection as a society about environmental protection, in the ultimate challenge that is the sustainable use of energy resources. Since Portugal is at an early stage of market development internally, gover...
This paper addresses a support information system for the planning of aircraft maintenance teams, assisting maintenance managers in delivering an aircraft on time. The developed planning of aircraft maintenance teams is a computer application based o...
The paper presents a methodology aiming to assess the impact of operations of a short- and medium-range fleet transitioning from jet fuel to hydrogen propulsion, considering the constraint arising from the distribution of hydrogen refueling infrastru...
The choice of parameters for the life tests of gas turbine engines is a complex multi-criteria task. In this article, as a tool for solving this task, it is proposed to use simulation modeling of the engine life cycle to select gas turbine engine lif...
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...
Smart charging is a means of monitoring and actively controlling EV chargers to optimize the distribution and consumption of energy with a focus on peak-load avoidance. This paper describes the most important requirements that have influenced the des...
Emission reduction and energy efficiency are fundamental objectives for the sustainability of the urban transport (UT) sector. One of the actions to achieve these objectives is to replace the vehicles that make up the fleet of UT buses with more effi...
Efficient truck–shovel allocation is essential for optimizing open-pit mining operations, but the integration of heterogeneous diesel and electric fleets introduces complex scheduling challenges, including charging requirements, range limitatio...
Background: As road transport companies increasingly integrate electric trucks (eTrucks) into urban fleets, evaluating their performance in real-world conditions is essential for effective fleet management and infrastructure planning. Methods: This s...
In recent years, the need for robotic fleets in large warehouse environments has constantly increased. The customers require faster services concerning the delivery of their products, making the use of systems such as robots and order-management soft...
Electric vehicles have a clear benefit over conventional vehicles when it comes to the impact on climate change. Underlying paper describes how fast (or slow) the uptake of electric vehicles can change the overall performance of an entire fleet on cl...
Managing a fleet efficiently to address demand within cost constraints is a challenge. Mismatched fleet size and demand can create suboptimal budget allocations and inconvenience users. To address this problem, many studies have been conducted around...
This paper combines matrix game theory with negotiating theory and uses U-solution to study the framework of the consulting air combat of UAV cluster. The processes to determine the optimal strategy in this paper follow three points: first, the UAV c...
Spatial information technology has been widely used for vehicles in general and for fleet management. Many studies have focused on improving vehicle positioning accuracy, although few studies have focused on efficiency improvements for managing large...
Stringent emissions regulations in cities and the high amount of daily miles driven by taxi vehicles enforce the need to renew these fleets with more efficient and cleaner technologies. Hybrid vehicles are potential candidates due to their enhanced p...
Urban last-mile logistics systems must improve service responsiveness while reducing environmental impact. While micromobility-based delivery fleets offer significant emission advantages compared to conventional vans, their operational efficiency dep...
This study reports the likely real-world effects of fleet replacement with electric vehicles (EVs) and higher efficiency EURO 6 vehicles on the exhaustive emissions of NOx, PM, and CO2 in the seven boroughs of the West Midlands (WM) region, UK. Natio...
Wood transportation is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions, which should be considered when the carbon neutrality of the forest industry is of concern. The EU is dedicated to improving technology for a carbon-neutral development. This stu...
Limited-stop service is useful to increase operation efficiency where the demand is unbalanced at different stops and unidirectional. A mixed scheduling model for limited-stop buses and normal buses is proposed considering the fleet size constraint....
Each business faces large competition in the market, and it is necessary to adopt the most effective methodology as possible in order to obtain the best solution. Six Sigma (6σ) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. The tool...
This paper addresses the underrepresentation of traffic activity in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) practice despite its critical influence on the energy and environmental footprint of both electrified and conventional vehicles. To bridge this gap, the p...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) create an interesting alternative for establishing more sustainable urban freight deliveries. The substitution of traditional trucks in the last-mile distribution by a UAV fleet can contribute to urban sustainability b...
Implementing innovative solutions in the internal transport of manufacturing enterprises is becoming an important element of improving operational efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This article assesses the potential of hydrogen fuel...
In the transition to sustainable public transportation with zero-emission buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric buses have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional diesel buses. However, assessing their economic viability is crucial for widespr...
Traditional formation control methods are widely used in the field of unmanned ground vehicle formation, but they lack mechanisms with which to effectively cope with complex terrains that occur during movement. In order to better improve the adaptati...
As Urban Air Mobility (UAM) moves toward implementation, managing high-density, high-volume flights in urban airspaces becomes increasingly critical. In such environments, the design of vertiport airspace structures plays a key role in determining ho...
The coastal fisheries in Liberia comprise small-scale Kru and Fanti low technology canoes and open boats, as well as industrial trawlers. At the end of the war in 2003, foreign industrial trawlers dominated the coastal fisheries in Liberia. After the...
Shared-fleet logistics involves collaboration between two or more companies to combine workloads and vehicle capacity to improve vehicle utilisation and transport efficiency and to reduce costs. This study considers the potential environmental and ec...
High profitability and high costs have stiffened competition in the airline industry. The main purpose of the study is to propose a computationally efficient algorithm for integrated fleet assignments and aircraft routing problems for a real-case hub...
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