TY - JOUR
TI - Route optimization to increase energy efficiency and reduce fuel consumption of communal vehicles
AU - Jovičić Nebojša M
AU - Bošković Goran B
AU - Vujić Goran V
AU - Jovičić Gordana
AU - Despotović Milan Z
AU - Milovanović Dobrica M
AU - Gordić Dušan R
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2010
VL - 14
IS - 11
SP - 67
EP - 78
PT - Article
AB - Collection and transportation within the system of solid waste management may  account more than 60% of the overall budget, most of which is for fuel  costs. Furthermore, municipal vehicles have great environmental impact  through exhaust gases emissions. The aim of this research was to estimate  the potential for reduction of fuel consumption and thus the emission of CO2  through the communal vehicles route optimization. General methodology for  route optimization is also presented. For the area under study, detailed  field experimental research in the City of Kragujevac was conducted. Using  GIS and GPS technology, whole municipally infrastructure for waste  collection was scanned and all paths of communal tracks was recorded and  allocated in developed database. Based on experimental and numerical  results, one typical municipal vehicle route was analyzed by using ArcGis  software. The obtained result indicates 2700 km of possible savings per year  concerning one communal vehicle. In addition, the most fuel-economical route  was extracted and compared with the original route, and with the routes  extracted from criterions concerning the traffic time and shortest distance.  According to available information for the City of Kragujevac and the  results from this study, it was estimated that the total savings could be  20% in costs and the associated emissions.