The Universities of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universite Libre de Bruxelles) started in 1979 with the development of a new urban transport system based on electric vehicles. The scope of this project is to facilitate the urban traffic and to relieve the city centre. Therefore the users will be provided with a sufficient number of vehicles, which are at their disposal by means of an automatic renting system, to cover local transportation needs normally carried out by IC-vehicles and which cannot easily be fulfilled by traditional measn (streetcar, bus, subway). Such a service permits moving around in the city avoiding all parking problems. The maintenance problems are concentrated by the system operator. Only a few simple rules have to be respected for making use of this service. Automatic rent-car stations will be spread all over the town. They are organised as battery charging post and can be combined with taxi-ranks. The fleet of vehicles to be launched should be large enough to permit an evaluation of the decrease of the number of unused and actually unnecessary classical cars, realizable by distributing the E.V.'s over automatic rent-a-car stations not farther apart than ca. 300 m. Such a network covering the aimed area will allow the customers to move quickly and efficiently without having to walk large distances. It has been set up taking into account the existing means of communication. At the same time that is proceeded to the development of the automatic rent-a-car stations, E.V.-technology problems may be studied. New solutions or characterization procedures in the field of energy sources, static converters and electric drives may be investigated.


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    Title :

    Brussels electric vehicle experiment


    Additional title:

    Bruessels Versuche mit Elektrofahrzeugen


    Contributors:
    Eck, J.L. van, I. (author) / Mathys, P. (author) / Maggetto, G. (author) / Backer, H.D. de (author) / Moortgat, D. (author) / Meyers, R. (author)


    Publication date :

    1982


    Size :

    11 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 6 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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