Decision maker survey on new vehicle concepts

Kurzfassung

Project Deliverable EU Project AEROFLEX (Aerodynamic and Flexible Trucks for Next Generation of Long Distance Road Transport) The analysis of the Eurostat micro data shows the following results: (1) FTL transports are of high importance within the analysed part of the European freight transport. (2) The selected commodities groups with high volumes and transport distances above 150 km (see deliverable D1.1) are primarily transported on pallets. Container transports may have a high relevance for intermodal transport chains or hinterland transports. (3) The share of fully loaded transports for journeys between 150 and 299 km is about 42 %. The share increases with the increase of transport distances 300 km and above up to 45 %. The monitoring of European road freight transport micro data of the year 2014 (EUROSTAT, 2011) shows the three categories (i) vehicle-kilometres, (ii) tonnes, and (iii) tonnes-kilometres by a journey based evaluation including all journeys of EU 29 road freight transport. The journey based evaluation was chosen related to the existing data base because a vehicle based evaluation was not available to describe the European long haul road freight transport. It is shown that on one side more than 75 % of tonne kilometres are in the group above 150 km transport distances and on the other side 80 % of the transport volume is in the transport distance class below 150 km. The amount of vehicle kilometres (about 73%) explains the relation between these figures in the distance classes. It can be considered that high capacity vehicles should address not only higher road transport distances but also the high transport volume in shorter distances.