Paper Proposal - Outline
Implementation of Electric Garbage Trucks in Itajubá-MG Natália Vilas Boas Pappi Maciel In order to define the topics and main ideas that are fundamental for the relevance and support of the paper, the following outline was developed: Introduction Transportation Emissions; Climate change; Electric Vehicles; electric trucks specifically; Disposal of solid waste; Smart Cities - Concept; Background information and important considerations The fact that electric vehicles do not produce noise and how could that influence the time of the solid waste collection; Considerations about the time to charge the vehicles and the impact on the peak load time; Conflic of interests: who would be interested in such change? (government x private companies). Methodology Data Collection (schedule, logistics, truck loads, truck specifications, fuel consumption); Results Identification of the necessary infrastructure; Comparison between the current method and the possible cha...