A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Fuel Fleet of Buses (AFB) to Enhance Mobility in Central Florida

The objectives of the project can be summarized as follows: (1) Collect performance data from the buses in real time with trip mapping to perform various sustainability analytics. (2) Conduct a comparative analysis for the alternative fuel bus technologies to quantify their life cycle sustainability impacts, including environmental impacts (e.g., carbon footprint, air pollution, energy consumption), social impacts (e.g., human health), and economic impacts (e.g., life cycle costs). (3) Investigate the impacts under different policy-relevant scenarios such as charging infrastructure, different ridership profiles, and different routes to better aid effective policymaking. (4) Determine the optimum fleet composition including the number of refueling stations under different market penetration rates, using multi-objective optimization techniques to help ease the transition period and avoid unnecessary investment in the infrastructure to aid transit agencies in optimizing fleet utilization and policymakers in designing effective policies.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $274979
• Contract Numbers:

  BED26 977-05

• Sponsor Organizations:

  University of Central Florida, Orlando

  12443 Research Parkway, Suite 207
  Orlando, FL  United States  32826-
• Managing Organizations:

  Florida Department of Transportation

  Research Center
  605 Suwannee Street MS-30
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32399-0450
• Project Managers:

  Brandin, Tony

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Central Florida, Orlando

  12443 Research Parkway, Suite 207
  Orlando, FL  United States  32826-
• Principal Investigators:

  Abou-Senna, Hatem

• Start Date: 20230105
• Expected Completion Date: 20241031
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternate fuels; Alternatives analysis; Environmental impacts; Fleet management; Life cycle analysis; Optimization; Policy; Transit buses; Vehicle fleets
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01869604
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Florida Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: BED26 977-05
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 5 2023 3:03PM