Vehicle fleet energy efficiency: Influence on overall vehicle effectiveness

Abstract

This paper presents the research on vehicle fleet energy efficiency impact upon overall vehicle effectiveness. Transport companies and companies with own vehicle fleets tend to enhance their resource effectiveness, and to increase their transport service quality with the objective of attaining a competitive position on the market. Since energy consumed for transport operations is an important transport process resource, a method for assessing transport process effectiveness has been developed with the objective of increasing vehicle fleet effectiveness and its energy efficiency, and the overall vehicle effectiveness human indicator has been defined accordingly. The developed method was then implemented in an actual vehicle fleet and variations of the overall vehicle effectiveness human indicator were researched, as well as specific energy consumptions for respective net transport volumes depending on the following indicators: vehicle payload capacity utilization rate and mileage utilization rate. It is shown that specific energy consumption influences overall vehicle effectiveness depending on both the payload capacity utilization rate and mileage utilization rate.

Impact of developed software package application for the operation and maintenance management on improving the vehicle fleet energy efficiency

“…They apply their research on the vehicle fleet of the specific company whose work is the sales and distribution of spare parts for passenger vehicles. Radosavljević and others [3], in their focus put the energy efficiency of the vehicle fleet from the point of view of the overall effectiveness of the vehicle. They develop the method they apply to specific vehicle fleet and is based on an indicator of the overall effectiveness of the vehicle including the human factor.…”

Transportation Performance Measurement for Coal Mining: A Review and Framework

“…The effectiveness of coal transportation in this study using the Mining Transportation Overall Vehicle Effectiveness which was abbreviated as MTOVE. This method was adopted from the Transportation Overall Vehicle Effectiveness TOVE concept developed by (Villarreal 2012) combined with the Overall Vehicle Effectiveness Human Factor (OVE Human Factor) by (Radosavljević et al 2018) with some adjustments made to ensure it is applicable in the coal mining transportation process. Its measurement is based on the calendar time considering the fact that the mining sector works throughout the year except for special holidays as well as 24 working hours a day which is suitable due to the fact that the sector is capital-intensive and requires optimal use of equipment for high volume production within a short time.…”

“…Another indicator of the effectiveness of transportation was also introduced as OVE Human Factor using a mathematical model which includes vehicle availability, driver availability, and energy as resources affecting the effectiveness of the process (Radosavljević et al 2018). The study found that the influences of specific energy consumption on overall vehicle effectiveness depend on both the payload capacity utilization rate and mileage utilization rate.…”