A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and Marine

The present paper is a review on efficiency issues related to three important sectors of the transportation systems: railways, electrical vehicles, and marine. For the three sectors, the authors, in reference of their knowledge and research area, show the results of a wide literature analysis, in or...

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Main Authors: Morris Brenna, Vittorio Bucci, Maria Carmen Falvo, Federica Foiadelli, Alessandro Ruvio, Giorgio Sulligoi, Andrea Vicenzutti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/9/2378
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spelling doaj-1723340675c74540aab0c90fb1a7ac512020-11-25T02:58:13ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732020-05-01132378237810.3390/en13092378A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and MarineMorris Brenna0Vittorio Bucci1Maria Carmen Falvo2Federica Foiadelli3Alessandro Ruvio4Giorgio Sulligoi5Andrea Vicenzutti6Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, ItalyDepartment of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, ItalyDIAEE Electrical Engineering, University of Rome Sapienza, 00184 Rome, ItalyDepartment of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, ItalyDIAEE Electrical Engineering, University of Rome Sapienza, 00184 Rome, ItalyDepartment of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, ItalyDepartment of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, ItalyThe present paper is a review on efficiency issues related to three important sectors of the transportation systems: railways, electrical vehicles, and marine. For the three sectors, the authors, in reference of their knowledge and research area, show the results of a wide literature analysis, in order to highlight which are the measures, in terms of technological solutions and management techniques, which are recently investigated and implemented, for improving the three transportation systems, from the point of view of efficiency. In particular, for the railway transportation sector, a wide analysis is presented, detecting which are the main measures adopted for improving the efficiency, related to the power systems for supplying trains and to the train traffic control, with a focus on the storage system integration. For electric road vehicles the analysis is focused on the plug-in electrical vehicles and on the infrastructure for their recharge, with an emphasis on how these vehicles can support the grid, e.g., through Vehicle to Grid (V2G) applications. Finally, for the marine transport service the review is related to the propulsion systems and on how the different solutions can meet the objective of efficiency.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/9/2378electrical transportelectrical vehicleenergy efficiencymarine transportrailway
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Maria Carmen Falvo
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Alessandro Ruvio
Giorgio Sulligoi
Andrea Vicenzutti
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Vittorio Bucci
Maria Carmen Falvo
Federica Foiadelli
Alessandro Ruvio
Giorgio Sulligoi
Andrea Vicenzutti
A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and Marine
Energies
electrical transport
electrical vehicle
energy efficiency
marine transport
railway
author_facet Morris Brenna
Vittorio Bucci
Maria Carmen Falvo
Federica Foiadelli
Alessandro Ruvio
Giorgio Sulligoi
Andrea Vicenzutti
author_sort Morris Brenna
title A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and Marine
title_short A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and Marine
title_full A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and Marine
title_fullStr A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and Marine
title_full_unstemmed A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and Marine
title_sort review on energy efficiency in three transportation sectors: railways, electrical vehicles and marine
publisher MDPI AG
series Energies
issn 1996-1073
publishDate 2020-05-01
description The present paper is a review on efficiency issues related to three important sectors of the transportation systems: railways, electrical vehicles, and marine. For the three sectors, the authors, in reference of their knowledge and research area, show the results of a wide literature analysis, in order to highlight which are the measures, in terms of technological solutions and management techniques, which are recently investigated and implemented, for improving the three transportation systems, from the point of view of efficiency. In particular, for the railway transportation sector, a wide analysis is presented, detecting which are the main measures adopted for improving the efficiency, related to the power systems for supplying trains and to the train traffic control, with a focus on the storage system integration. For electric road vehicles the analysis is focused on the plug-in electrical vehicles and on the infrastructure for their recharge, with an emphasis on how these vehicles can support the grid, e.g., through Vehicle to Grid (V2G) applications. Finally, for the marine transport service the review is related to the propulsion systems and on how the different solutions can meet the objective of efficiency.
topic electrical transport
electrical vehicle
energy efficiency
marine transport
railway
url https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/9/2378
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