Vehicles for the Service Economy: Early-stage Vehicle Concept Designs for Vehicle-based Service

Pizzinini, Clemens; Langer, Leonhard; Froissart, Irénée; Elsayed, Ahmed; Lienkamp, Markus

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2023.01.016

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“…Therefore, the VbS framework can be applied easily and outside the public service domain. Current state concept development tools similar to Nicoletti et al [38] or Pizzinini et al [39] can directly implement service components into the concept design.…”

Section: Interpretation Of the Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The VbS definition is a novel concept catering to the increasing importance of vehicles as service delivery platforms. Initial ideas about this concept have already been published by Pizzinini et al [39,46]. In this paper, we extended this definition to operationalize it for this SDG analysis and interface with existing vehicle concept development methods [38,67].…”

Section: Interpretation Of the Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whereas the drive unit always comprises similar components to perform the vehicle's driving function (engine, transmission, etc. ), there is a great variety of non-driving related components, depending on the intended use case for the vehicle [39]. For passenger transport, vehicle superstructures basically contain seating and entertainment functions [38].…”

Section: Functional Spectrum Of Vehiclesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Driving Sustainable Development: The Power of Vehicle-Based Services in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

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Vehicle-based services such as mobile health clinics can increase spatial accessibility in rural areas. In contrast to stationary infrastructure, vehicle-based services are flexible and can be less capital-intensive to initiate service supply. In particular, rural communities across sub-Saharan Africa experience insufficient access to essential public services necessary for sustainable human development. We consider vehicles as mobile service platforms capable of temporarily transporting service staff, goods, and functions necessary for service delivery spatially closer to rural demand locations. Despite these advantages, public authorities must perform a cost–benefit analysis before allocating resources to a vehicle-based service fleet. This paper analyzes which vehicle-based services beneficially influence the Sustainable Development Goals and quantify their potential for the sub-Saharah African region. Based on a criteria-based selection method, we parse 169 target formulations and extract a set of directly influential Sustainable Development Goals. The remaining goals are the starting point for a literature review to identify existing vehicle-based service concepts addressing the targets. Our evaluation reveals that vehicle-based services can enhance about 128 (76%) of all targets and 16 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Half of these targets require the delivery of consumable goods, whereas 59 (35%) of the Sustainable Development Goal targets relate to the transportation of people, and 24 (14%) require access to a broader spectrum of functionality mounted on top of the vehicle, such as water pumps or refrigerators. In combination with publicly available data, we can identify the SDG for each African country with the greatest potential for a vehicle-based service intervention. Our approach enriches public project appraisals for systematical decision support between stationary and mobile infrastructure.

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Driving Sustainable Development: The Power of Vehicle-Based Services in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

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“…While our approach is tailored for SSA and applicable throughout all public services that can be rendered with vehicles [35], we select four public services based on their importance for sustainable human development, their notorious undersupply in the study area, and their diverse requirements for being delivered by vehicles (i.e., water tank vs. mobile medical unit [47]). We combine service locations of four public services to leverage the full potential of VbS with vehicles capable of delivering multiple service types [47].…”

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“…Once a final number of clusters is determined, we assess whether center points are on the existing road network (step 3, Figure 3). Further, all potential vehicle service stop locations must reside inside the assumed daily vehicle range [47]. Outliers are manually removed, similar to the approach introduced by Straitiff et al [34].…”

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From Supply Chain Stakeholder to Service Customer: An Engineering Framework for Vehicle-Based Services

2022

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Geographic distance between supply and demand reduces spatial accessibility. Vehicles have been contributing to improved spatial accessibility by offering transport services for people and goods. From traditional trucks to mobile health clinics, vehicles can offer a wide range of functionalities on wheels. To develop context-specific vehicles-based services, we propose a novel engineering framework based on a supply chain perspective. Requirements are derived from supply chain stakeholders and translated into vehicle-based services and vehicle components.

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The Vehicle-based Service Routing Problem

Pizzinini,

Wettig,

Ziegler

2023

2023 11th International Conference on Traffic and Logistic Engineering (ICTLE)

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Vehicles for the Service Economy: Early-stage Vehicle Concept Designs for Vehicle-based Service

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Driving Sustainable Development: The Power of Vehicle-Based Services in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Driving Sustainable Development: The Power of Vehicle-Based Services in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

From Supply Chain Stakeholder to Service Customer: An Engineering Framework for Vehicle-Based Services

The Vehicle-based Service Routing Problem

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