Title
Comparative analysis of the energy consumption, economic cost and environmental impact between fossil and electric buses in the public urban transportation of the City of Ambato, Ecuador
Date Issued
01 June 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Ambato Ecuador
Publisher(s)
International Journal of Renewable Energy Research
Abstract
In Ecuador, the City of Ambato has a public transport system which dependents exclusively on oil derivatives. The Directorate of Traffic, Transport and Mobility of the Decentralized Autonomous Government Municipality of Ambato, is responsible for the planning, organization and regulation of traffic of interparochial, and urban land transport throughout the territory comprising the jurisdiction of Ambato's Canton. This organism prepares and signs the contracts of operation for the public transport in the city of Ambato. In this paper, a comparative analysis of the energy consumption, economic costs and environmental impact between fossil and electric buses for the urban public transport of the city of Ambato is evaluated. This study is based on information provided by GADMA operating contracts of the Directorate of Traffic, Transport and Mobility on simulation of urban transport routes in ArcGIS software and on technical characteristic of fossil and electric buses provided by manufacturers. Innovation in issues of urban mobility and public transport is a new field of research to minimize the environmental impact caused by traditional systems. In this way, the impact of two brands of electric buses in terms of flexibility, sustainability and emission of pollutants is analyzed. The results show a remarkable reduction compared to the traditional system based on the aforementioned terms.
Start page
944
End page
959
Volume
9
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85071035791
Source
International Journal of Renewable Energy Research
ISSN of the container
13090127
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank the Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Secretariat, SENESCYT, for its assistance with the development of this proposal thanks to the financing of the investigation project PROMETEO: 'Technical-Economic and Environmental Evaluation of the Integration of Renewable Energy, Design Techniques and Efficient Management of Sustainable building and Sustainable Transport Systems, Practical Application in the city of Ambato'; and the Investigation and Development Directorate, DIDE, of the Technical University of Ambato for its special help with the development of this proposal, thanks to the financing of the project: 'Planification and Organization of the Integral Electric Transportation System and Sustainable Mobility in the city of Ambato'. Finally, we thank the Municipality's Transit, Transportation and Mobility Directorate, GADMA, for facilitating information from the operation contracts of the urban transportation cooperatives of the city.
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