Electr ification of Ur ban Waste Coll ection: Intro ducing a Simulati on - Based Methodolog y for Fe asibility, Im pact and Cost A nalysis Ricardo E wert a , A lexander Gra hle b *, Kai Martins - Turner a , Anne Syré b , Kai Nagel a , Di etmar Gö hlich b a Department of Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, Technische Universität Berlin, B erlin, Germ any; b Department Methods for Product Development and Mechatronics, Tech nische Universitä t Berlin, B erlin , Germany Alexander Grahle, [email protected] , Departm ent Methods for Product Development and Mechatronics, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany Prov ide short bi ographi cal note s on all c ontribut ors he re i f the journ al re quires t hem. Submitted to "International Journal of Sustainable transportation" in March 2020. Ewert, R.; Grahle, A.; Martins-Turner, K.; Syré, A.; Nagel, K.; Göhlich, D. (2020): Electrification of Urban Waste Collection: Introducing a Simulation-Based Methodology for Feasibility, Impact and Cost Analysis. Preprint available at https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-10314. Electr ification of Ur ban Waste Coll ection: Intro ducing a Simulati on - Based Methodolog y for Fe asibility, Im pact and Cost A nalysis We introduc e a mul ti - agent - based si mulation methodolog y to inves tigate the feas ibility an d evaluat e environm ent al and econom ic sus tainabi lity of an electrified urban waste collection. Electrific ation is a potential solution for transpor t deca rbonizat ion and a lready w idely avai lable for indi vidual and publ ic transpor t. However, the avail ability of electrif ied commerci al vehicles like wast e collection vehicles is still limite d, despite their significant contribution to urban emissions. Moreover, t here is a lack of clari ty whether electric waste co llec tion vehicles can persist in real word con ditions and wh ich system design is required. Therefore, we present a sy nthetic model for waste col lection deman d on a per - link basi s, usi ng open ava ilable data. The tour pla nning i s solve d by a n open - source algo rithm as a capac itated vehicle r outing proble m (CVRP). This generates plau sible tours whic h handle the dema nd. The gene rated tours are simulated wit h an open - sour ce tra nsport s imulat ion (MATSim ) for both t he die se l and the elect ric waste colle ction vehi cles. To compare th e life cycle costs, we analyze t he data using to tal cost of ownersh ip (TCO). En vironmental i mpacts are evaluated b ased on a W ell - to - Wheel appro ach. We present a comparison of the two prop ulsion types for the exemplary use cas e of Berlin. And we are able to generate a sui table plan ning to handle B erlin’s waste col lectio n demand us ing battery electric vehicles o nly. The TC O calculation rev eals that the el ectrification raises the tot al operator cost by 16 - 30 %, dependin g on the scena rio and the battery size with conserv ative assumptio ns. Furthermo re, the greenh ouse gas emi ssions (GHG) can be redu ced by 60 - 99%, depend ing on the carbon footprint of electric po wer generatio n. Keyword s: urban f reight tr anspor t, mul ti - agent, traffic s imulation, electrification, decarbon ization, sustai nability, waste co llection, veh icle routin g p robl em Introduction and motivation The European Union and many countries have set ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions progressively until 2050 (European Commission, 2018). Germany has committed itself to reduce GHG emissions by 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 (Bundesmi nisteriu m für Um welt, Natu rschutz U nd Nuk leare Sicherheit [BMU], 2016). To achieve this go al, profound tran sform ation in all s ectors is required. The aim for the transportation sector is a reduction of 42% by 2030 com pared to 1990 (BMU, 2016) . Besides clim ate action, the nece ssity to find alt ernate solut ions for transportation is particularly pronounced in urban areas, d ue to the har mful effects of air pollution and noise (World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, 2013). A mere optimization of the curr ent syste m alm ost certain ly will no t be suf ficient to reach theses ambitious goals. For example, it is found that solely reducing congestion will not lead to a sufficient reduction of GHG emissions and that a broader variety of strategies need s to be deployed (Ansari Esfeh & Kattan, 2020). In contrast, the e lectrific atio n of the tra nsport sy stem is a p romis ing appro ach to m eet clim ate goals and reduce pollution simultaneously. Following this widely accepted fact, th e project “zeroCUTS” (zero Carbon Urban Transport System: An alysis of strate gies to fully de - ca rbonize urban transport) (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2018) currently under way at Technische U niversität Be rlin addresses all segmen ts of the urban transpo rt system. First results are very prom ising. F or example, Bischoff and Maciejewski show that the tax i traf fic in Be rlin cou ld be elec trified without a c ost inc rease (Bischoff & Maciejewski, 2015). They also show that a ll priva te car tr affic w ithin the c ity of Berlin could be serviced by a fleet of autonomous vehicles, implying that they could also be electric and thus addressing moto rized individu al traff ic (Bischoff & Maciejewsk i, 2016). Something similar holds for urban bus traffic where field studies are widely under way (Jefferies & Göhlich, 2018). In contrast to passenger cars and buses, the prevalence and availability of electrifie d comm ercial vehicl es is sti ll lim ited (Gao, Lin, Davis, & Birky, 2018) . This is especially true f or municipal vehicl es such as was te collection vehicles. Despite the ir small overall quantity, they contribute significantly to the emissions of the urban traffic system (Göhlich & Gräbener, 2016) and thus offer a great GHG and pollutant emission saving potential. However, the fie ld of w aste collections is only sparsely discussed in the scientific community (Goes, Bandeira, Gonçalves, D'Agosto, & Oliveira, 2019) . Goes et al. ch o ose to address the ef fect of eco -driving on the em issions of waste collection. They conclude that eco-driving has a positive effect. Still, they only focused on diesel fueled trucks (Goes et al., 2019) . Gräbener et al. analyzed the effects of hybrid electric vehicle concepts for urban municipal applications. However, the sole application of BEV c ould not be addressed, yet (Graebener, Tarnowski, & Goehli ch, 2015). Until recently, European companies presented only few prototypes f or electri c municipal v ehicles, which do not yet m eet market requirem ents (Göhlich & Gräbener, 2016). According to our own market analysis, this is about to change. Chinese manufacture rs already pro duce electric m unicipal vehicles (D u & Ouyang, 2017). European manufacturers such as Volvo, Daimler and MAN plan to introduce suitable heavy duty electric urban trucks, in the near f uture. Furtherm ore, speciali zed manufacturers of municipal vehicles, e.g. Faun 1 , Geesinknorba 2 , and Zöller 3 have presented electric pro totypes, and th e European m arket launch of these v ehicles is imminent. However, there is st ill a lack of clar ity whether these veh icles can pers ist in real working conditions, and which system design (battery capacity , bat tery type, charging 1 https://www.faun.com/en/products/alternative - drives/ 2 https:// www.geesinkno rba.com/electric - driving/ 3 https://www.zoeller - kippe r.de/e n/produkte /e - delta - 2307 - premi um - electric - 24v/ technology etc.) is required. Besides the technical feasibility, the changes in operating cost and the env ironmental im pact of electric vehi cles (EVs) c ompared to today’s internal comb ustion engine veh icles (ICEVs) rem ains an im portant issue. Esp ecially the battery capa city is a criti cal param eter, since larger bat teries provide highe r ranges but also increas e total cost and decrease payload. Th e technology selection of electr ic municipal vehicles must take energy consumption into account. W hile driving consumption can be quantified by standardized driving cycles, the energy consum ption of the auxiliaries, which can account for a large proportion of the overall consum ption (Graebener et al., 2015), depends on the specific working conditions. System simulation is required to answer those question in the early phase of technology planning. Theref ore, this paper in troduces a m ulti -agent- based sim ulation methodology to investigate th e feasibility as w ell as the poss ible economic and environmental consequ ences of a completely e lectrified urba n waste collection. The presented methodolog y is appli ed to the city of Berlin, which serves as a use case. Since the real - world v ehicle trajec tories are not av ailable in m any cases, we develop a synthetic model for waste collection demand on a per-link basis. Afterwards trajectories from the vehicle depots via collection points and dump back to the depot are generated. This is sol ved by a tour planning algorithm as a capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP). The generated tours are routed and simulated on the network of the MATSim Open Berlin S cenario (Ziemke, Kaddoura, & Nagel, 2019). The procedure is carried out for both a diesel and an elec tric waste colle ction vehicle which are fully specified for example in terms of consumption, gross vehicle weight and payload. To compare the ICEV and the EV in terms of life cycle costs and environmental impact during the use phase, we anal y ze the data us ing the total cost of ownership (TOC) and the Well- to -Wheel (WTW) methods. The paper addresses qu estion s such a s: How will fix ed and va riable co sts dif fer between the fo ssil and the electric ap proach? How will tour structure and lengths as well as fleet size ch ange? An d more in general: H ow can urban waste collection b e realistically modelled and sim ulated in order to a ssess the costs and env ironmen tal impacts of different propulsion types? State of the art As stated, in the p resent study we are interested i n the consequences of a full electrific atio n of w aste collectio n in Berlin, wh ile at th e same tim e dev eloping a metho d that can b e used f or arbit rary regio ns. In the follo wing we in vestigate the stat e of the a rt in four dif ferent f ields: (1) Generation of dem and for pickups (2) Generation of pickup tours (3) Cost matrix for the pickup tours (4) Technology an d operational par ameters of w aste collection v ehicles Demand generation for waste collection Conventional w aste managem ent is a well - resea rched subject . Typical approaches couple demographic properties to waste generation per person or household, and then use the spatial layout of the region to obtain amounts of waste per road link or block (Arribas, Blazquez, & Lamas, 2010; Beigl, Lebersorger, & Salhofer, 2008; Ghose, Dikshit, & Sharma, 2006). Willem se uses G PS track s to identi fy the co llectio n area during the tour, but then generates pickup locations from census da ta (E. W illemse, 2018) . Ot he rs rely entirely on GPS tracks, i.e. slowly traversed links indicate pickup locations together w ith th e time to serve them (Anghinolfi, Paolucci, Robba, & Taramasso, 2013; Ghiani, Guerrieri, Manni, & Manni, 2015). Tour generation Once the demand is known, vehicle tours need to be generated tha t start at the vehic le depot, iterate between pickups and delivery at the dump, and eventually return to the depot. Since the capacity-limited vehicles need to unload during the tour and resume collecting afterwards, these are capa citated vehic le routi ng problems (CVRPs). Many algorithms are discu ssed to solve p roblem s such as CVRPs (Irnich, Toth, & Vigo, 2014) or arc al gorithm s (E. J. Willemse, 2016) . Other approaches use particle swarm optim ization (Hannan et al., 2018) or Boolean optim ization methods (Laureri, Minciardi, & Robba, 2016). Ignoring the unload and resume collection capability simplifies the problem, but leads to too many and too short tours with too many vehicles (Martins -Turner & Nagel, 2019). Cost matrix/road network Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are often defined on cost matrices, which specify the cost between each pair of locations (Irnich et al., 2014) . Cle arly, for w aste col lection such a matrix would be cumbersome to use, since its s ize would be the n umber of pickup locations squared. For a region with, say, 100,000 pickup locations, the matrix would be of size 10 10 . This implies 40 GB of m emory footprint, already too large for typical desktop computers. An alternative is to derive the cost from one location to another by a call to a routing algorithm based on a network graph. As usual, this trades memory for computing time. Urban electric co mmercial vehicles As stated in section Introduction and Motivati on , technology development for electric municipal vehicl es is still prem ature. However, som e research concern ing the top ic has been done. To adequately specify the waste collection EV, the current development state of battery cost and lifetime and driving consumption is reviewed. Battery price A recent publication p redicts a pri ce range for pa ssenger car b attery packs from 150 -180 $/kWh in 2019 (Nykvist, Sprei, & Nilsson, 2019). The Bloomberg 2019 EV Outlook identifies the curr ent specific pr ices for car batt ery packs at 17 4 $/kWh in 2018 (Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 2019). With the average exchange rate in 2018 of 1,18 $/€, this is equivalent to about 147 €/kWh. A study from 2015 predicts a spe cific price range for commercial vehicle battery packs from 378-770 €/kWh in 2020 (Hacker, Waldenfels, & Mottsch all , 2015) . Th e price gap between commercial ve hicle and passenger car bat teries can be expla ined with higher lif e time requirements and lower quantities (Hacker et al., 2015) . Nevertheless, the identified p rice ranges for passenger car batte ries poin t out the future de velopm ent pote ntial fo r comm ercial ve hicle batt ery prices. Battery lifetim e The second im portant parameter is th e possible life tim e of the batte ry, typically measured in equivalent full charging cycles until a rem aining capacity of 80% is reached (Schim pe et al., 2018; Schmalstieg, Käbitz, Ecker, & Sauer, 2014). This parameter has a h igh impact on th e TCO since it determines whether a battery replacemen t is necessary within th e lifetim e of the vehicle. The possibl e real -l ife cycle s are strongly influenced by depth of discharge, charging rate and battery tempe rature. Maddi et al. show that Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide (N MC) cells can perform up to 4,000 full cycles at 45 °C before reaching end of life (EOL). This v alue drops to 50 cycles at 5 °C (Matadi et al., 2017). In 2018, a study was published which showed that temperature controlled NMC cells can perform up to 4,500 full cyc les a t 0 °C ambient temperature with 3.5 C (Yang, Zhang, Ge, & Wang, 2018). Driving consumption Gao et al. use real world driving cycles for a simulation based consum ption estimation. For a class eight waste collection vehicle a consumption of 2 kWh/km is calculated (3.2 kWh/m ile) (Gao et al., 2018). Based on their maximum driving distan ce and maxim um speed, we assume that a rural cycle is used. Sripad and Visvanathan deal with uncertain input parameters by using a Monte Carlo simulation to calculate a consumption in a range from 1.38-1.81 kWh/km (2.2-2.9 kWh/mile) for a 36 t class 8 truck. The underlying driving profile remains unclear but based on the covered range, a highway profile can be assum ed (Sripad & Viswanathan, 2017) . Urban elec tric buses seem to have a comparable driving profile to the considered urban waste collection vehicles. Kievekas, Vepsalainen et al. use real driving data an d a stochastic approach to calcula te an average driving consumption of 0.914 kWh/km on a suburban bus route (Kivek as, Vepsalainen, & Tammi, 2018). It must be noted that their empty vehicle m ass is about 3 t less compared to the vehicle type considered in this paper. Methodology The presented methodology combines three elem ents: A transport simulation, a TCO analysis and a W TW analysis. The tr ansport s imulat ion in co mbination with th e tour planning algorithm is used to generate a possible solution for waste collection in a given geographical region. Thereby it yields the necessary fleet size, distances driven and energy used fo r a specific ve hicle type. We compare different propulsion systems using the TCO and WTW methods to investigate economic and environmental implications. MATSim and js prit The Multi- Age n t Transport Sim ulati on (MATS im) approach builds microscopic models of the transport phenomena under investigation (Horni, Nagel, & Axhausen, 2016). “Microscopic” m eans that the releva nt entities of the system are individu ally resolv e d. The approach, as in any econom ic assessment exercise, is: (1) Building a model of the base case (ICEV) (2) Building a model of the policy case (3) Comparing costs and benefits Here, the mod el of the base cas e is a model of u rban waste collection w ith ICEV s. For a microscopic approach, this entails (a) a model of the demand for each day of the week, and (b) a method to generate plausible vehicle tours that serve that demand. The demand generation is done synthetically, based on available average numbers, plausible assumptions and spatial information, in particular locations of vehicle depots, dumps, and the s treet netwo rk. Th is is sim ilar to the n on - G PS based m ethods described earlie r (see section Demand Generation f or Waste Collection ), albeit simp ler. Afterwards, trajecto ries from the vehicle depots, i terating betw een collectio n points and dump and finally back to the depot, have to be generated. This is modelled as a shipment problem, where each shipment is from the pickup location to the dump. Vehicles are capaci ty (here in terms of payload) constrained, leading to multiple trips to the dump during a tour (Mar tins -Turner & Nagel, 2019). Also, tours are time constrained, which leads to multiple tours run simultaneously. Our approach uses the software jsprit 4 , which is already integrated with MATSim, and which is indeed able to 4 https:// github.com/ graphhopper/jspri t provide heuristic solutions for such shipment problems. For this study, vehicle depots are assumed to provide an unconstrained num ber of identical vehicles. The investigation c ase is gen erated sim ilarly. While an equal d emand is assumed, the EVs have different payloads and a range constraint. Evidently, the re sulting tours may be diff erent. Total cost of ownership The TCO analysis is a comm only accepted method in str ategic cost m anagem ent. It is used to calculate the financial impact of procurement decisions regarding not only purchase but also variable costs over the products lifetime (Geissdörf er, Gleich, & Wald, 2009; Götze & Weber, 2008). This method has proven to be useful to compare differe nt t echnological options in the early planning phase o f electri c mo bility solu tions (Goehlich, Spangenberg, & Kunith, 2013). Hence this method is suitable for the application in this work . Our approach i s based o n (Jefferies & Göhlich, 2018) . We assume a product lifetime of 10 years for vehicles and 20 years for charging infrastru ctur e , and annualize the cap ital expend iture using an a verage i nte rest rate of 4% according to (Jefferies & Göhlich, 2018) . Th e operational co sts are calcula ted exem plarily for two typical work days based on sim ulation results. Research concerning electric passen ger cars sho ws less maintenance effort compared to ICEVs (Propfe, Redelbach, Santini, & Friedrich, 2012). However, the resulting ch ange in m aintenance costs has no t yet been quan tified reliab ly for the considered veh icle type. Theref ore, we assum e the maintenance costs fo r the EVs usi ng the same costs as fo r the ICEVs, despite the presum ed savings f or EVs. Well - to- wh eel To analyze the environm ental impact of the simulated waste collection scenarios, GHG emissio ns from the prod uction of d iesel and e lect ricity as w ell as from their use in the vehicles are estimated following the WTW m ethodology (Edwards, Larivé, Rickeard, Lon za, & Maas, 2014). In contrast to a life cycle assessm ent (LCA) over the w hole life cy cle of a product (Deutsches Institut für Normung, 2009), this approach focuses on the comparison of GHG emissions from the use phase of the ICEV and the EV (Edwards et al., 2014) . Nonetheless, t he whole upstream chains of diesel a nd electricity, including extraction, production and distribution are considered (Deuts ches Inst itut f ür Norm ung, 2013). For the WTW analysis we choose the tool openLCA 1.8.0 5 with the database Ecoinvent v3.5 (Wernet et al., 2016). We use the IPCC 2013 metho d to calculate GHG emissions (Eggleston, Buendia, & Miwa, 2006) . As the ele ctricity data in Ecoinvent v3.5 is collected for the year 2014, we will calculate the GHG emissions assuming 473 gCO 2 eq/kWh for Germany in 2018 (Eggleston et al., 2006; Icha & Kuhs, 2019). Taking Germ an climate goals for the year 203 0 into account , we will cal culate GHG emissions from electricity production assuming 347 gCO 2 eq/ k Wh and assuming only renewable energies for electricity production, resulting in 25 gCO 2 eq/kWh (Wietschel, Kühnbach, & Rüdiger, 2019) . Case study Our case study is carri ed out for B erlin, the larges t city and c apital o f Germ any w ith currently 3 .75 m illion in habitan ts livin g in an a re a of 891 km 2 (Am t für Stat istik Berl in - Brandenburg). 5 http://www.openlca.org/ Road n etwork For the present investigation, we use a road network model consisting of links and nodes, link-based demands for waste collection, individually modelled synthetic vehicles, and individual vehicle depots and dumps. The road network is the regular network of the public available MA TSim Open Berlin Scenario (Ziemke et al., 2019), where the ne twork is o rigin ally derived from OpenStreetMap 6 . Generating a synthetic d emand for wa ste c ollectio n What now follows is a model to synthet ically genera te a plausible sp atially reso lved demand for w aste collection. Accord ing to the an nual report of the Berlin waste management company, the overall amount of waste from households and small businesses in 2018 is 813,495 t/a (Berliner Stadtreinigung, 2018). With the assumption that all 3.7 5 m illion inha bitants g enera te this amount equal ly, this resul ts in an averag e of 217 kg/(a*person). This number, multiplied by the number of inhabitants per district and divided by the number of weeks per year, results in the typical weekly amount per district. Each of the 96 districts has a fixed assignment to one of the four vehicle depots; this effectively decomposes the problem into four independent sub- pro blems. Real -world pickup schedules for Berlin are not publicly accessible. Therefore, it is necessary to synthetically generate a plausible collection schedule. In Berlin, some areas are served once per week, som e twice. For each vehic le depot sub -pr oblem, the districts with the low est waste den sity are identif ied, and assu med to be served on ce per week, on Wednesdays. All othe r districts are ass umed to be s erved twice: on Mo ndays 6 http:// www.openstreetmap .org and Thursdays or on Tuesdays and Fridays. These subgroups are combined such that the waste amounts are app roximately equ al between depots. Since we assum e an equal generated w aste amount per day, Mondays and Tuesdays will have more waste than Thursdays and Fridays. For balancing purposes, some districts were moved into the “low density” group, and then some of the “low density” districts were moved to Thursday or Friday collections w hile maintaining th e once- per -week frequency. The waste is transport ed to five dum ps where the delivered amounts are known (Berliner Stadtreinigung, 2018) ; therefo re, each d istric t is assign ed to a dump for each collection day so that the spatial layout is plausible, and the resulting weekly waste am ounts per dum p are realistic. Th e result of th is process is a synthe tic collection schedule which assigns to each distr ict a depot, one or more collection days, and for each collection day a dump. The link- based dem and for collection is now created at each link of the network depending on the free speed, length and the district where the road is located. In general, all roads with a free speed higher than 50 km/h are excluded, so that no collection will be created on motorways. The demand for collection is then distributed to the remaining links, proportionally to their length, which reflects the assum ption that in each district the population is distributed equally along the remaining links. The number of waste bins per link is then obtained by dividing this amount by the bin size. For the VRP, each demand per link is encoded as one shipment , regardless of the length and the amount of waste, which needs to go from the collection point to the disposal station. The number of bins per shipment is only relevant for the necessar y time per pickup. The objective function consists of the costs, defined as the sum of fixed costs for each employed vehicle and variable costs per km. The fixed costs include depreciation, insurance and the personnel costs of the crew, whe re it is assum ed that the crew is paid for the full day no matter how long the tour. The variable costs are the costs for the energy (e.g. fuel or electric power). Additionally, there are the following constraints: • All collectio n vehicles have capac ity (pa yload) constraints an d thus have to unload at the dumps. Each disposal of a fully loaded vehicle is assumed to take 45 minutes, which is also assumed to be used as the legally required break of the vehicle crew. • All collectio n vehicles have tim e constraints. They need to be back at the depot after 8 hours and the ea rliest depar ture is 6 am. A vehicle tour as a heuristic solution of the VRP thus starts at the depot, then iterates between multiple waste collections and the dump, and returns to the depot. The solution consists o f individu ally s pecified trajecto ries f or all the veh icles n ecessa ry fo r fulfilli ng the complete dem and of each specif ic collection day. An example of a tour is shown in Figure 2. Vehicle p arame ters Realistic par ameters for both the d iesel and the el ectric waste collection vehicl e are defined in order to quantify the results of the simulation in terms of energy consumption, WTW emissions and TCO. An ICEV w ith Euro 6 emission stan dards is chosen for the base cas e. It represents the n ewest ve hicle gene rations cu rrent ly in serv ice, in order to show th e present -day potential of com bustion engines. The specifications of the vehicle are received fro m personal interview s with a large G erman waste m anagement authority. For the investiga tion case, a co mmercially ava ilable, sm all - scale -produced electric waste co llection veh icle is chosen to refl ect the curr ent m arket situation and to get reliable p rice information. While vehicle and battery specifications and driving consumption are available online (E - Force One AG 7 ), pri ce inform ation and consumption f or waste collection w ere received from personal encoun ter with the vehicle (E- F orce One AG ) and coll ector (Geesin knorba Group 8 ) manufacturers. In electr ic pow ertrains, t he battery is the main c ost driver. Furtherm ore, t he weight of the battery has a considerable impact on the possible payload. Therefore, two different batter ies are selected : A large battery which enables longer rang es but also causes a reduced p ayload and a high er purchase price and a sm all battery which allows for an equal payload compared to the ICEV but has m ore significant range rest rictions. Further specifications of the I CEV and both EVs are shown in table 1. Table 1 : Veh icle type sp ecifica tions (m anufa cturer inf orma tion) ICEV EV1 (large battery) EV2 (small batter y) GVW [k g] 26,000 26,000 26,000 Payload [kg] 11,500 10,500 11,500 Capacity [m 3 ] 22 22 22 Average fuel consumption [l/100km] 73 - Fuel consumption driving 60 [l/100km] 100 [kWh/100km] Fuel consumption collecting 0.5 [l/1000kg] 1.4 [kWh/1000kg] Purchase Price C hassis and Collecto r [€] 210,000 452,250 Battery Cap acity (usable ) [kW h] - 310 155 Battery weight [kg] - 2,940 1,470 Battery p rice [€ ] - 234,000 126,000 Cycles to 80% rem aining capacity [ -] - 4,000 4,000 Cell chemist ry - NMC 7 https:// www.eforce.ch/ 8 https:// www.geesinkno rba.com To assess the reliabi lity of the p arameters stated by the manufacturer, the specific battery price, the possible charging cycles and the driving consumption are compared to the st ate of the art (s ee section Urba n Electric C ommercial Veh icles ). Since the usab le capacity is given , the inst alled capaci ty has to be calcul ated. Latest battery technology allows f or 80-85% usable SOC (Rehman et al.; Sauer, Sinhuber, Rogge, Rohlfs, & Winter, 2016) . Assuming 80 %, the specific prices are 604 €/kWh for the large and 650 €/kWh for the small battery. These values are on the high end of the identified price range (see section Urban Electric Commercial Vehicle s ) and t hus can be consider ed a conservativ e choice. The selected N MC battery is equipp ed with a wat er based temperatu re control system . Consequently the results of (Yang et al., 2018) can be applied. As the proposed charging rate is significantly lower than 3.5 C and 4,000 instead of 4,500 full cyc les are stated, the di mensioning app ears viable. The range for the driving consumption specified by the manufacturer (0.8-1.2 kWh/km ) is signific antly lower than reported in stu dies dealin g with s imilar tru cks. Th is could be the result of fundamentally different driving profiles. Neve rtheless, the m ean of the range given by the manufacturer is cho sen: 1 kWh/ km . This value is slightly higher than the consumption of the lighter electric bus with a comparable driving profile reported in (Kivekas et al., 2018). Charging infrastruc ture parameters In the presented use case, a single shift operation of eight hours daily is assum ed. This leads to up to 16 hours of dwell time which can be used for charging. Therefore, one 22 kW charger for every vehicle is suitable even for the 310 kWh battery. The cost for hardware, grid connection, approval, and setup for one charger is set to 10,000 € (Nationa le Plat tform Elektrom obilität, 2 015) . Results For the case study we investigate two different syn thetically ge nerated wee kdays for the waste collection in the city of Berlin: Monday as representing the collection days of the districts with higher demand density and Wednesday as the day collecting the waste in the distr icts with lower de ma nd den sity. The collection w ith ICEV s (base case) is compared to the collection with EVs (investigation cases). Vehicle trajector ies and base case: collection w ith diesel ve hicles Different waste co llection areas fo r a typical synth etic weekday are dep icted in Figure 1 . As stated earlier, this is then solv ed as a pickup -and- delivery V RP, w here all veh icles are originally located at their depots. In operation they a lternate between waste collection and disposal (dump) until all waste is removed , an d then return to their depots. The number of necessary vehicles is an output of the algorithm. For computational re asons, this is solved separately f or each distr ict; each dist rict is deno ted by a polygon in Figure 1. Figure 1 : Simulated was te collection on a typical syn thetic weekday . D ifferent colors refer to distr icts served by dif ferent vehicle d epots . Important properties of the problem for a typical synthetic weekday are as follows: • Volume of each waste bin: 1,100 l • Service time p er waste bin: 41 s • Number of shipments: 12,113 (Monday), 17,808 (Wednesday) • Waste to collect: 3,123 t (Monday), 3,100 t (Wednesday) The solution algorithm, jsprit, is run for 100 iterations. A typical route is shown in Figure 2 . Clearly, the re sult of th is w ill not be o ptim al; rathe r, it has to be inte rpreted as a “feasible so lution”. Because th e optimization p roblem is dif ferent for e ach synthetic weekday, the resul ts are also diff erent. The neces sary numb er of vehicles runs betwee n 198 and 218; the total distance is between 10,535 and 14,225 km; the lo ngest tou r for a single vehicle is 112 km. Figure 2 : Typical trajec tory of one w aste collecti on vehicle As a sensitivity t est, the sam e optimizations wer e run with m uch smaller bin siz es of 240 l, where the serv ice tim e per bin is 20 s. The n ecessary num ber of vehicles runs between 233 and 256; the total distance is between 11,863 and 14,733 km; the longest tour for a single vehicle is 108 km. Figure 3 shows the distribution of the tour length for the different simulation setups. The collection profile on Wednesday differs from the other weekdays. W e will p resent results for Mon day as a typical day and Wednesday as the exception al day . Figure 3 : Distribu tion of tour leng th fo r the diff erent sim u lation setups Investiga tion C ase: Coll ection wi th Electr ic Veh icles As a first investigation, the above study is re- run with th e waste co llectio n EV w ith a 310 kWh battery and a reduced payload of 10.5 t. Nevertheless, under the same conditions as in section Vehicle Traj ectories and Ba se Case: Collection with Diesel Vehicl es, the results end up in the s ame rang e, sometimes even with fewer vehicles o r kilometers. A t the same tim e, the battery capaci ty of 31 0 kWh is by far not exhausted: the most energy-intensive tour demands 142 kWh (W ednesday, large bins). Because of th e large unused bat tery capacity, a se cond electri c vehicle is considered (cf. table 1 ). It has a sm aller battery with 155 kW h. Because of the redu ced battery weight it h as the sam e payload as the ICEV (11.5 tons). These t rucks can rep lace the ICEVs one by one. The most energy-intensive tour consumes 139 kWh (Wednesday, large bins), which is f easible with th is battery. A s a result, one overnigh t charging cycle per day is sufficient for every individual tour. During the assumed 10- year lifetime of the vehicles (250 workdays/a), the 4,000 possible cycles are by far not reached. Thus, no battery change is required. Figure 4 shows the distribution of energy consumption for each tour in the different model setups. The energy consumption for waste lifting and compactification is included and comes out as about 30% of the energy consumption. Figure 4: Distribution of energy consumption per tour and vehicle for the different simulation setups Discussion of tour optimiz ation res ults To get ins ight on the imp act of the n umber o f jsprit iteration s, th e optim izations for one distric t (644 collections, 1,100 l bins, ICE Vs) were run for 50, 500, 4,000 and 12,000 iterations. Those 12,000 iterations took 15 hours of computing time, while 50 iterations took 25 minutes. The results were as follows: • The number of vehicles went down as 14, 14, 13, 12. • The average kilometers per vehicle went as 68, 67, 72, 81. • The maximum number of kilometers of any vehicle went as 101, 99, 99, 98. Evidently, the algorithm strives to reduce the number of vehicles because of their high fixed costs. Th e average number of kilometers in consequen ce increases. In contrast, the maximum number of kilometers of any vehicle does not increase, which is good news with respe ct to ele ctrifica tion and s pecif ication of batte ry size. Operator cost s Figure 5 shows the total operator cost on f leet level for two synthetic week days with different collection profiles and the influence of the two considered bin sizes for both days. The cost is sp lit into its m ost relevant shares. The simulation runs with the assumption that staff always works full time. As a result, shortening vehicle tours has no staff cost consequences. When reducing the number of vehicles, w e assum e that the staff size can be redu ced in the lo ng run. W ith these assumptions w e find that the e lectrification causes an in crease in operat ing cost of 29.4% with the large (EV1) and 17.5% with the small battery (EV2) in the worst case. The high impact of s taff cost with up to 7 1.4% of the base cas e’s costs is w ell visible. This value drops slightly for the EVs but with 57.7% and 60.7% still is the main factor. Simultaneously the sh are of veh icle purchase price increases from 11.8% of the operating cost for the ICEV to 31.5% for EV1 and 27.9% for EV2. This is countered by a reduction of energy cost share by about 3.7% for both EVs. Generally, it is noticeable that energy costs have a m inor impact on total co sts. The alteratio n of cost among the ana lyzed scena rios (bin size and collection profile) are m ainly due to changes in fleet size. Figure 5 : Total da ily operato r cost on fleet lev el Well - to- wh eel To evaluate the en vironm ental impacts, the case s are analyzed . In order to assum e the same conditi ons in terms of d istances travelled an d waste coll ected, EV2 is used (cf . t able 1). Figu re 6 displays the GHG em issions of the wast e collection for both simulated typical synthetic days. Total CO 2 eq emissions for the WTW approach of the ICEV and EVs, both with data from Ecoinvent v3.5 are displayed (Wernet et al., 2016). Additionally, the CO 2 eq emissions f or the EVs using estim ations for Germ any’s electricity mixes in 2018 and 2030, and using estimations for a fully renewable electric ity ge neration emiss ions are depicted. Taking a closer look a t the results ca lculated with elec tricity data from the year 2014 (Ecoinvent v3.5), the GHG emissions caused by the EVs are around 59-63% smaller than the em issions caused b y the ICEVs. F or Germany’s current electr ic ity mix , EVs’ GHG em issions are around 71 - 74% smaller com pared to the ICEV s’ GHG emissions. Taking projected future electricity mixes into account, the GHG emissions by the EVs are around 79- 81% smaller than the GH G emissions caused b y ICEVs. If the EVs are powered only by renewable energies, 98-99% of GHG em issions can be saved compared to the I CEVs. N ote that even with only ren ewable energ ies, there are still GHG emissions, caused by the upstream chains of renewable energy production. Figure 6 : We ll - to- wh eel GHG emissions on f leet level Conclusion and outlook Our results show that the electrific ation of the waste collectio n in urban ar eas is feasible based on current technology. As shown above it is possible to conf igu re a waste collection EV w ith the sam e paylo ad as the ICE V tog ether with a suffic ient range : The simulated Berl in waste c ollectio n vehicle s typic ally pe rform daily tours o f less th an 100 km, which can be run by a truck with a fully charged medium sized battery without recharging. The proposed methodology provides realistic vehicle trajectories for conventional ICEV and BEV. The actual fleet of the Berlin waste operator with approx. 300 vehicles is somewhat larger than our “synthesized fleet” with about 220 vehicles. But firstly we neith er consider a veh icle reserve n or extrem e waste occurrences (e. g. typically after Christmas). And secondly this difference applies to both the conventional and the electric flee t. Therefore, th e relative comparison of l ife cycle cos ts and environmental impact of both fleets rem ains valid. Our TCO analysis show s a moderate cost in crease , between 18 and 30% for the electric fleet , H owever, it can be expected that this cost d isadvantage of an EV f leet will decrease substant ially in the near future. Heavy duty EVs are just en tering the m arket and scale eff ects due to m ass production have no t been explo ited yet . Furthermore, a reduction of b attery cos t can be expe cted for comm ercial vehicles analog ousl y to passenger cars. Another important aspec t is the energy consum ption of the EVs. In our simulation we chose an average v alue . Especially on cold winter days an electri c cabin heating could cause sign ificant ly higher energy dem and. Also the impact of the uncertainty of the mentioned average consum ption as discussed in section Urban Electric Com mercial Vehicles cannot be ignored. However , the majority of the vehicles use significantly less than 100 kWh per tour with the made assumptions, leaving a sa tisfac tory saf ety ma rgin even with the sm all battery ( Figu re 4 ) . Furtherm ore, the la rge batte ry off ers a safe ty marg in of 54% f or the h ighest sim ulated energy demand. Therefore, even a doubling of the consumption could be handled. Consequently, the operator could deploy a fleet of vehicles with small batteries (155 kWh) supplem ented by a few veh icles with larger bat teries to handle th e longest tou rs, resulting in a cost increase somewhere between the above mentioned 18 and 30%. To further increas e range or decrease battery size, (fast) charging options during dwell tim es are poss ible. T his would le ad to cost savings f rom smaller b atteries , but also entail to additional investment costs for additional chargers. We are planning to address these issues in fut ur e publications. Here, findings from publications about the intelligent placement of fast charging stations for electric city buses such as (Kunith, Mendelevitch, & Goehlich, 2017) will be expanded. Our WTW analysis shows a signif icant reduction of GHG emissi ons of the EV fleet in comparison to the ICEVs. Additionally, GHG emissions with the predicted electricity mix in 2030 could be lowered by approx. 27% com pared to Germany ’s current el ectric ity mix and by approx. 95% using only renewable energies. Nonetheless, future research should evaluate the whole life cycle of the vehicles, including production (in particular the production of the EVs’ battery) and end of l ife of the vehicles. Howev er, this requires clos e cooperation with manufacturer s, which we are currently w orking on. Furthermore, the use phase could be calculated m ore precisely, for example with the help of a vehicle simulation, to take use- case dependen t conditions such as location -specific topology, weather conditions or actual payload and driver influenc es into account . At the sam e time, more impact categories shou ld be conside red for evaluating the environmental impacts of the ICEV s and EVs, which consider air quality and human toxicity as well. Eventually our results on electrificat ion of urban w aste c o llectio n wil l become part of our study on a fully de- carbonized urb an transport syst em. Acknowledgements This work was funded by the Deu tsche Forsch ungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germa n Research Foundatio n) , project title : “ Analysis o f strategies to fully de - carbo nize urba n transpor t” , project number : 39805114 4. References Amt f ür Statistik Be rlin -B randenburg. 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