Transportation Mission Based Optimization of Heavy Vehicle Fleets including Propulsion Tailoring
Licentiate thesis, 2018

Over decades freight vehicles were produced for a wide range of operational domains so that vehicle-manufacturers were not concerned much about the actual use-cases of the vehicles. Environmental issues, costumer expectations along with growing demand on freight transport created a competitive environment in providing better transportation solutions. In this thesis, it was proposed that freight vehicles can be designed more cost- and energy-efficiently targeting rather narrow ranges of operational domains and transportation use-cases. For this purpose, optimization-based methods were applied to deliver customized vehicles with tailored propulsion components that fit best given transportation missions and operational environment. Optimization-based design of vehicle components showed to be more effective considering optimization of transportation mission infrastructure simultaneously, including charging stations, routing and fleet composition and size, especially in case of electrified propulsion. It was observed that by implementing integrated vehicle hardware-transportation optimization, total cost of ownership can be reduced up to 35\%, in case of battery electric heavy vehicles.

Furthermore, throughout thesis, the effect of propulsion system components size on optimal energy management strategy in hybrid heavy vehicles was studied; a methodology for solving fleet-size and mix-vehicle routing problem including enormous number of vehicle types were introduced; and the impact of Automated Driving Systems on electrified propulsion was presented.

optimization

heterogeneous heavy vehicle fleet

optimal energy management

propulsion system tailoring

Automated Driving Systems

electrified propulsion

total cost of ownership

electromobility

transportation mission

fleet sizing

Chalmers, Johanneberg in room HA2, Hörsalsvägen 4, Gothenburg, Sweden
Opponent: Dr. Mattias Grönkvist, Jeppesen, and Tekn. Lic. Anders Eriksson, Volvo GTT Powertrain

Author

Toheed Ghandriz

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems

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Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Areas of Advance

Transport

Energy

Subject Categories

Transport Systems and Logistics

Vehicle Engineering

Energy Systems

Infrastructure

ReVeRe (Research Vehicle Resource)

Publisher

Chalmers

Chalmers, Johanneberg in room HA2, Hörsalsvägen 4, Gothenburg, Sweden

Opponent: Dr. Mattias Grönkvist, Jeppesen, and Tekn. Lic. Anders Eriksson, Volvo GTT Powertrain

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