Abstract

This paper shows that the European Recommendation COM (2007) 551 final finds that over 60% of the population lives in urban areas in the European Union (EU). Urban areas now constitute the living environment of the majority of the population and increased traffic in town and city centers has resulted in chronic congestion. Every year nearly 100 billion Euros, or 1% of the EU’s gross domestic product (GDP), are lost to the European economy as a result of this congestion. The analysis of the means of transport presented in this paper will show which electrical vehicle is the solution for non-polluting transport according to each specific need. The Romanian company ICPE SAERP, together with the Urban Transport Administration of Bucharest (RAT Bucharest), has modernized classic tramcars, equipping them with three-phase inverters and asynchronous motors and a partially lowered floor. By 2011, 18 tramcars will be modernized. ICPE SAERP together with ASTRA BUS Arad, will produce and deliver new trolleybuses with lowered floors in Bucharest. These new trolleybuses will be equipped with three-phase inverters, with asynchronous motors and with converters for the auxiliary services and for the air conditioning system. Also the trolleybus has a protection device against high voltage present on the body of the vehicle, which is controlled by means of a DSP processor in the master controller. The methodology used in the authors research is presented in this paper as well as the results that led to the conclusion that the type of public transportation proposed is cleaner, more reliable, more efficient and more comfortable than others.


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http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/ut110381
https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-the-built-environment/116/22276,
https://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=1118536,
https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2033973913
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Published on 01/01/2011

Volume 2011, 2011
DOI: 10.2495/ut110381
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license

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