ECOFLOTA: Business intelligence system for the transition towards sustainable mobility fleets

Abstract

The lack of knowledge about the possibilities of switching to sustainable fleets and their costs lead companies to prolong the life of their fleets as much as possible. Therefore, the overall objective of ECOFLOTA is to provide arguments for companies to decide to migrate their fleets towards new ones that provide more sustainable mobility. Within this framework, this project proposes the development of an automated analysis, planning and forecasting system consisting of i) a support tool for the optimised migration towards cleaner vehicles to achieve the objectives of zero emissions and green transport; ii) a predictive model of the useful life of these new sustainable vehicles and iii) the development of an eco-driving model to optimise the performance of these new sustainable vehicles. Hence, the project proposes the design and development of a global system at all levels for the upgrade of fleets with low emission vehicles. The project was developed over a period of 15 months, during which time last mile delivery companies were involved in the definition, design, development and validation of the system, in order to meet the technical specifications and functional requirements of their operations. As a result, 61 use cases were simulated considering three types of routes (urban, short distance and interurban), as well as three types of low emission vehicles (electric, gas and hybrid)