Looking across the various sectors for which there are clear opportunities for natural gas to substitute for oil – specifically bunker fuel for ships, natural gas vehicles (NGVs) replacing primarily gasoline-powered light duty vehicles (LDVs), heavy duty trucks both in and ex-US, power generati...
The energy consumed by battery freight trains increases by 5% (241-km range) because of the additional battery weight but it is still about half the energy consumed by diesel trains owing to the high efficiency of all-electric drives. After accounting for the average energy intensity of the se...
This can be tackled in our approach by optimiz- ing the prices for each container such that all contain- ers are transported, which corresponds to introducing penalty terms to non-delivered containers, which might be alternatively shipped by trucks. This could be real- ized by either directly ...
One monster freight takes over 600 18-wheel trucks off the road, but many double-tracked rail lines are currently too narrow to accommodate the girth of the train if another passes by. Here's how the monster train stacks up, by the numbers. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/jdIzR...
system100may be implemented as an LDT, including a multiple number of train cars106A-106C. More generally, the transport system100may include any mobile chained transport system, including, but not limited to, multi-car trains (e.g., FIG. 1), chained buses, chained trucks, and chained ...