A transit fleet replacement model for emissions reduction

Author

Gong, Jing ; Wu, Chaozhong

Author_Institution

Intell. Transp. Syst. Res. Center, Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 July 2011

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

25

Abstract

Bus is the most popular public transportation mode due to high loading capacity and low infrastructure requirement. Because operation time is long, bus transit system is required to run in a green manner. In this paper a transit fleet replacement model is developed to make vehicle purchase and retirement decisions under environmental and technological constraints. The overall objective is to find cost-minimizing strategies under reduction goals for various pollutants. A case is proposed to illustrate the effectiveness of the model. The results show that the model can provide strategies for fleet owners or government administrators to deal with the issues of sustainable transit system.

Keywords

air pollution; sustainable development; transportation; bus transit system; cost-minimizing strategies; emissions reduction; environmental constraints; fleet owners; government administrators; pollutants; public transportation mode; sustainable transit system; technological constraints; transit fleet replacement model; Chaos; Computational modeling; Cost minimization; Emissions; Vehicle replacement; Vehicle scrappage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Operations, Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0573-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOLI.2011.5986522

Filename

5986522