Impact of reduced mass of light commercial vehicles on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, air quality, and socio-economic costs

S Cecchel; D Chindamo; E Turrini; C Carnevale; G Cornacchia; M Gadola; A Panvini; M Volta; D Ferrario; R Golimbioschi

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.081

Impact of reduced mass of light commercial vehicles on fuel consumption, CO₂ emissions, air quality, and socio-economic costs

Sci Total Environ. 2018 Feb 1:613-614:409-417. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.081. Epub 2017 Sep 14.

Authors

S Cecchel¹, D Chindamo², E Turrini³, C Carnevale³, G Cornacchia³, M Gadola³, A Panvini³, M Volta³, D Ferrario⁴, R Golimbioschi⁴

Affiliations

¹ DIMI, Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, University of Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy; Streparava S.P.A., via Zocco 13, 25030 Adro (BS), Italy.
² DIMI, Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, University of Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy. Electronic address: daniel.chindamo@unibs.it.
³ DIMI, Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, University of Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
⁴ Streparava S.P.A., via Zocco 13, 25030 Adro (BS), Italy.

PMID: 28918272
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.081

Abstract

This study presents a modelling system to evaluate the impact of weight reduction in light commercial vehicles with diesel engines on air quality and greenhouse gas emissions. The PROPS model assesses the emissions of one vehicle in the aforementioned category and its corresponding reduced-weight version. The results serve as an input to the RIAT+ tool, an air quality integrated assessment modelling system. This paper applies the tools in a case study in the Lombardy region (Italy) and discusses the input data pre-processing, the PROPS-RIAT+ modelling system runs, and the results.

Keywords: Air quality; Greenhouse gases; Lightweighting; Multi-objective optimization; Road transport; Scenario analysis.