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The Economic Effects of Electromobility in Sustainable Urban Public Transport

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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)

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).

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  • Oliwia Pietrzak & Krystian Pietrzak, 2021. "The Economic Effects of Electromobility in Sustainable Urban Public Transport," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-28, February.
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