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TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY OF DELIVERY TRUCKS: A STUDY OF COUPLING VEHICLE DESIGN AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM THROUGH FUNCTIONAL MODELLING AND OPTIMISATION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Khashayar Shahrezaei ,
Ciarán J. O'Reilly ,
Timo Lähivaara  and
Peter Göransson
Khashayar Shahrezaei*
Affiliation:
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Teknikringen 8, SE- 100 44 Stockholm; The Centre for ECO2 Vehicle Design at KTH, Teknikringen 8, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden
Ciarán J. O'Reilly
Affiliation:
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Teknikringen 8, SE- 100 44 Stockholm; The Centre for ECO2 Vehicle Design at KTH, Teknikringen 8, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden
Timo Lähivaara
Affiliation:
Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland
Peter Göransson
Affiliation:
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Teknikringen 8, SE- 100 44 Stockholm; The Centre for ECO2 Vehicle Design at KTH, Teknikringen 8, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden
*
Shahrezaei, Khashayar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, khasha@kth.se

Abstract

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To enable the emergence of new and efficient vehicle design from the transport system perspective, a formulation of a multifunctional vehicle-transport design optimisation problem is presented. System- wide measures of transportation and vehicle efficiency measures are conceptually considered in an integrative design approach to drive the transport solutions towards more resource-efficient and eventually more sustainable solutions. Considered efficiency measures associated with the system-wide aspect are namely, productivity and service efficiency, and measures associated with vehicle attributes are namely mass and shape efficiency. The conflicting nature of these measures is balanced using optimisation methodologies through multiple transportation scenarios with varying transport demand and deterministic drive cycles. The obtained optimisation results demonstrated that there is a strong interconnectivity between the vehicle's overall configuration and transportation aspects. Thus, conceptually demonstrating how the inclusion of various transport-vehicle efficiency measures simultaneously in an integrative design approach during the early vehicle design may yield a more efficient and better overall system performance.

Keywords

Design for X (DfX)OptimisationConceptual designResource efficient vehiclesEarly design phases
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023 , pp. 3631 - 3640
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