Goods Vehicle Effects (GVE)

Co-financed project: ITRL 90 % funding, ECO2 funding 10 %
PhD student: TBD
Start: 2020

Sustainable transport demands a better understanding of how new vehicles and their inherent functions will affect the system level, and vice versa, concerning future goods delivery needs compared with today’s system. This will require research on methods to effectively address the system-level effects that influence the early design process, as well as acquire constraints from system level that will have an effect on the vehicle and inherent designs and functions. The hypothesis for this research is that connecting system levels from detailed vehicle systems, agent-based micro/macro simulations and studies on organisational structures and business models will give an enriched analysis that can generate a set of methods and processes on how to design and analyse an urban goods delivery solution.