The Economic Effects of Electromobility in Sustainable Urban Public Transport

Oliwia Pietrzak and Krystian Pietrzak
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Oliwia Pietrzak: Faculty of Engineering and Economics of Transport, Maritime University of Szczecin, 1-2 Wały Chrobrego St., 70-500 Szczecin, Poland
Krystian Pietrzak: Faculty of Engineering and Economics of Transport, Maritime University of Szczecin, 1-2 Wały Chrobrego St., 70-500 Szczecin, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-28

Abstract: This paper focuses on effects of implementing zero-emission buses in public transport fleets in urban areas in the context of electromobility assumptions. It fills the literature gap in the area of research on the impact of the energy mix of a given country on the issues raised in this article. The main purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse economic effects of implementing zero-emission buses in public transport in cities. The research area was the city of Szczecin, Poland. The research study was completed using the following research methods: literature review, document analysis (legal acts and internal documents), case study, ratio analysis, and comparative analysis of selected variants (investment variant and base variant). The conducted research study has shown that economic benefits resulting from implementing zero-emission buses in an urban transport fleet are limited by the current energy mix structure of the given country. An unfavourable energy mix may lead to increased emissions of SO 2 and CO 2 resulting from operation of this kind of vehicle. Therefore, achieving full effects in the field of electromobility in the given country depends on taking concurrent actions in order to diversify the power generation sources, and in particular on increasing the share of Renewable Energy Sources (RES).

Keywords: electromobility; emission costs; electric vehicles; zero-emission buses; air pollution; public transport; sustainable transport; transport management; renewable energy sources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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