Adoption of Electric Trucks in Freight Transportation

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dc.contributor.authorAlp, Osman
dc.contributor.authorTan, Tarkan
dc.contributor.authorUdenio, Maximiliano
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-26T22:09:24Z
dc.date.available2019-11-26T22:09:24Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-15
dc.description.abstractTransportation sector is the largest contributor of global greenhouse gas emissions in the USA. Disruptive technological changes in this sector, such as alternative fuel vehicles, are crucial for emission reduction. We analyze how a cost-minimizing strategic transition plan can be developed for a transportation firm that aims to adopt electric trucks in their fully diesel fleet, over time. We consider the case in which the firm needs to invest in charging infrastructure required to support this transition, as the public charging infrastructure is currently inadequate. The congestion effect at the charging stations, the charging times, and the potential loss of productive driving time due to detours to reach charging stations are explicitly considered. By developing an independence property, we are able to model this problem as a linear integer program without any need to explicitly specify origins and destinations. We illustrate the resulting transition plan with a realistic data set. Our results indicate that a transportation firm that operates with high demand density over a given service region significantly benefits from adoption of electric trucks, while also enjoying substantial carbon emissions savings. High demand density also favors smaller battery capacity with shorter ranges under the optimized charging network capacity, even though larger battery capacity would increase productivity with extended ranges. Our analysis also offers insights for governments and regulators regarding the impact of several influential factors such as carbon cost, content of renewable energy in electricity mix, diesel engine efficiency, and subsidizing the charging infrastructure.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAlp, O., Tan, T., & Udenio, M. (2019). Adoption of Electric Trucks in Freight Transportation. 1-39.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37270
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/111250
dc.publisher.facultyHaskayne School of Businessen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
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dc.subjectSustainabilityen_US
dc.subjectTransportationen_US
dc.subjectInvestment Decisionsen_US
dc.subjectElectric Vehiclesen_US
dc.titleAdoption of Electric Trucks in Freight Transportationen_US
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