Abstract:

This paper assesses the improvements in energy demand and the related emissions of climate change and air pollution from the electrification of the private fleet of vehicles and the public transport fleet in the city of Rome, Italy. This paper provides a well-To-wheel analysis and considers two alternative hypotheses for the vehicles fleet renewal up to 2025. A data-driven approach is followed, where real traffic patterns from floating car data are adopted as well as geo-referenced open data published in the General Transit Feed Specification format by Rome's public transport agency. Based on real driving cycles, basic energy consumption models for electric vehicles have been calibrated. In addition, the economic gain arising from the elimination of externalities was assessed.