An electro-mobility system for freight service in urban areas

Molfino, Rezia; Zoppi, Matteo; Muscolo, Giovanni Gerardo; Cepolina, Elvezia Maria; Farina, Alessandro; Nashashibi, Fawzi; Pollard, Evangeline; Dominguez, José Antonio

doi:10.1504/ijehv.2015.068932

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“…-Freight transport to destination by refrigerating truck. From here, freight units will be delivered to urban areas possibly by multi modal systems (Molfino et al 2015).…”

Section: System Model Development 21 the Logistic Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of RFID-TTI technologies on the efficiency of perishable products logistics

Cepolina¹,

Cangialosi²,

Giusti³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 5th International Food Operations &Amp; Processing Simulation Workshop

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"The paper concerns the logistics activities related to perishable products. Perishable products are delivered from the production site to a warehouse by refrigerated truck. Perishable products are accepted or not at the warehouse entrance, according to their detected quality levels; if accepted, they are stored in the warehouse in suitable environmental conditions. Finally, they are delivered by refrigerated truck to the destination. Human errors affect these activities. Perishable products have to be delivered in a suitable quality level to the destination. Because of human errors, sometime products arrive in an unsuitable quality level and therefore, there is a loss for the company. RFID technologies, integrated with time temperature indicators (TTI), allow a prompt detection of abnormal quality loss and the prompt actuation of mitigation actions. In order to evaluate the benefits of different RFID-TTI implementation set-ups, the study defines a methodology that measures the risk of monetary losses. The method is applied to a case study and the results are presented."

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“…-Freight transport to destination by refrigerating truck. From here, freight units will be delivered to urban areas possibly by multi modal systems (Molfino et al 2015).…”

Section: System Model Development 21 the Logistic Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of RFID-TTI technologies on the efficiency of perishable products logistics

Cepolina¹,

Cangialosi²,

Giusti³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 5th International Food Operations &Amp; Processing Simulation Workshop

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“…At the base of the design and development of the FURBOT handling device stand a few key constraints Muscolo et al, 2015;Pollard et al, 2014;Molfino et al, 2015):…”

Section: Freight Handling Functional Parametersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The current technology does not satisfy the needs of this specific context also for what concerns the vehicles and the transportation process. In this context, the FURBOT vehicle was developed, as a result of the FURBOT (Freight Urban RoBOTic vehicle) project Muscolo et al, 2015;Pollard et al, 2014;Molfino et al, 2015;Molfino et al, 2014), funded within the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission, which aim was to develop a new vehicle to improve the urban freight transport. The main goal of the project was to design a vehicle that redefines the paradigms of freight transportation focusing on energy efficiency, sustainability, mobility dexterity and safety, modularity, intelligent automated driving and freight handling robotisation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A preliminary study to optimise safety conditions on a freight urban robotic vehicle

Muscolo

Moregola

Molfino

2018

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The paper presents a new concept architecture of light duty fully electric vehicle for efficient sustainable urban freight transport which allows the movement of two Euro Pallets 800 × 1200 mm (or boxes with similar bottom part). Active suspensions of the vehicle have been designed in order to adapt their stiffness to the payload on board and to modify the chassis height during loading-unloading tasks. In this paper, a preliminary study to optimise safety conditions on goods on board of the vehicle, and on people near the vehicle is presented. In order to guarantee safety conditions for the vehicle's driver and city areas where the vehicle should be moved, design optimisations on the chassis have been developed. These optimisations have been compared using computational analysis. Two alternative solutions have been proposed and one of the presented results has been included on the real vehicle.In industrialised countries, the number of studies and surveys in the field of urban goods movement (UGM) has increased considerably over recent years. Ambrosini and Routhier (2004) compare the objectives, methods and results in this sector and focuses on nine industrialised countries of Europe, America and Asia. Cooperative action seems to bear fruit providing that information and dialogue take place in the long-term with all the operators involved. The development of intelligent transport systems (ITS) and better management of urban facilities may improve these attempts.De Jong et al. (2004) present a review of the literature on freight transport models, focusing on the types of models that have been developed since the 1990s for forecasting, policy simulation and project evaluation at the national and international levels.Dablanc (2007) presents three characteristics of urban goods movements in major European cities: (1) Goods movements are largely indifferent to the internal structure of cities.(2) Urban policies targeted on freight mobility appear to be quite inefficient. (3) The provision of appropriate urban logistic services is slow in emerging despite growing needs. These features have been observed around from 2001 to 2006 through working with large metropolitan transport authorities, as well as with the French national research program on "Goods in Cities" and the "Best Urban Freight Solutions" European network. These observations draw a picture of the urban freight industry, which can appear quite critical.Browne et al. (2010) provide a review of the light goods vehicle (LGV) fleet and its activity, with specific reference to operations in urban areas, and sustainability issues associated with the ever-growing use of LGVs. Traditionally these vehicles have received little attention but are becoming an ever-more important element of urban freight transport both for goods collection and delivery and for the provision of a wide range of critical services.Freight transport is a critical issue for urban areas: the population is becoming more and more concentrated in cities and therefore the bulk of industrial product...

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“…At the base of the design and development of the FURBOT handling device stand a few key constraints (Muscolo et al, 2014;Muscolo et al, 2015;Pollard et al, 2014;Molfino et al, 2015):…”

Section: Freight Handling Functional Parametersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The current technology does not satisfy the needs of this specific context also for what concerns the vehicles and the transportation process. In this context, the FURBOT vehicle was developed, as a result of the FURBOT (Freight Urban RoBOTic vehicle) project (Muscolo et al, 2014;Muscolo et al, 2015;Pollard et al, 2014;Molfino et al, 2015;Molfino et al, 2014), funded within the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission, which aim was to develop a new vehicle to improve the urban freight transport. The main goal of the project was to design a vehicle that redefines the paradigms of freight transportation focusing on energy efficiency, sustainability, mobility dexterity and safety, modularity, intelligent automated driving and freight handling robotisation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A preliminary study to optimise safety conditions on a freight urban robotic vehicle

Molfino¹,

Muscolo²,

Moregola³

2018

IJVS

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An electro-mobility system for freight service in urban areas

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

Impact of RFID-TTI technologies on the efficiency of perishable products logistics

Impact of RFID-TTI technologies on the efficiency of perishable products logistics

A preliminary study to optimise safety conditions on a freight urban robotic vehicle

A preliminary study to optimise safety conditions on a freight urban robotic vehicle

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