TY - GEN
T1 - Impacts of Park-And-Ride Systems on Vehicle Emissions in Intermediate Cities
AU - Mera, Zamir
AU - Rosero, Fredy
AU - Ortega, Jairo
AU - Rosero, Ramiro
AU - Hausberger, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The park-and-ride system is a modal interchange point, enabling commuters to switch from conventional vehicles to public transport for their urban journeys. This study explores the potential of the park-and-ride system to reduce fuel consumption and pollution compared to using a private passenger car in Ibarra, Ecuador. The novelty remains in the assessment of the Euro level and the bus occupancy, based on real-world driving profiles and using a detailed micro-level emission model to estimate fuel consumption, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon moNOxide (CO), and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. The results reveal potential fuel consumption and pollution per passenger reduction when Euro VI buses are fully loaded. CO2, CO, and NOx emissions per passenger are reduced by approximately 13 times, eight times, and 1.7 times, respectively, compared to private Euro 3 passenger cars. These findings underscore the importance of optimizing park-and-ride systems’ occupancy to substantially reduce fuel consumption and air pollution. The park-and-ride system can promote more sustainable and environmentally friendly urban transport by transitioning from personal vehicles to shared public transportation.
AB - The park-and-ride system is a modal interchange point, enabling commuters to switch from conventional vehicles to public transport for their urban journeys. This study explores the potential of the park-and-ride system to reduce fuel consumption and pollution compared to using a private passenger car in Ibarra, Ecuador. The novelty remains in the assessment of the Euro level and the bus occupancy, based on real-world driving profiles and using a detailed micro-level emission model to estimate fuel consumption, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon moNOxide (CO), and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. The results reveal potential fuel consumption and pollution per passenger reduction when Euro VI buses are fully loaded. CO2, CO, and NOx emissions per passenger are reduced by approximately 13 times, eight times, and 1.7 times, respectively, compared to private Euro 3 passenger cars. These findings underscore the importance of optimizing park-and-ride systems’ occupancy to substantially reduce fuel consumption and air pollution. The park-and-ride system can promote more sustainable and environmentally friendly urban transport by transitioning from personal vehicles to shared public transportation.
KW - Park-and-ride
KW - Public transportation
KW - Vehicle emissions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85189550393&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-52255-0_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-52255-0_19
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85189550393
SN - 9783031522543
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 265
EP - 276
BT - Emerging Research in Intelligent Systems - Proceedings of the CIT 2023 Volume 1
A2 - Olmedo Cifuentes, Gonzalo Fernando
A2 - Arcos Avilés, Diego Gustavo
A2 - Lara Padilla, Hernán Vinicio
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 18th Multidisciplinary International Congress on Science and Technology
Y2 - 13 November 2023 through 17 November 2023
ER -