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      Conventional, Hybrid, or Electric Vehicles: Which Technology for an Urban Distribution Centre?

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          Freight transport has an important impact on urban welfare. It is estimated to be responsible for 25% of CO 2 emissions and up to 50% of particles matters generated by the transport sector in cities. Facing that problem, the European Commission set the objective of reaching free CO 2 city logistics by 2030 in major urban areas. In order to achieve this goal, electric vehicles could be an important part of the solution. However, this technology still faces a number of barriers, in particular high purchase costs and limited driving range. This paper explores the possible integration of electric vehicles in urban logistics operations. In order to answer this research question, the authors have developed a fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem with time windows for electric vehicles. In particular, an energy consumption model is integrated in order to consider variable range of electric vehicles. Based on generated instances, the authors analyse different sets of vehicles in terms of vehicle class (quadricycles, small vans, large vans, and trucks) and vehicle technology (petrol, hybrid, diesel, and electric vehicles). Results show that a fleet with different technologies has the opportunity of reducing costs of the last mile.

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                Journal
                ScientificWorldJournal
                ScientificWorldJournal
                TSWJ
                The Scientific World Journal
                Hindawi Publishing Corporation
                2356-6140
                1537-744X
                2015
                5 July 2015
                : 2015
                : 302867
                Affiliations
                MOBI Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
                Author notes
                *Philippe Lebeau: plebeau@ 123456vub.ac.be

                Academic Editor: Caiping Zhang

                Article
                10.1155/2015/302867
                4509519
                a28177b4-a97f-451e-9a6f-360940262b2c
                Copyright © 2015 Philippe Lebeau et al.

                This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                : 21 November 2014
                : 25 January 2015
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