Comparative Analysis of the Energy Consumption, Economic Cost and Environmental Impact between Fossil and Electric Buses in the Public Urban Transportation of City of Ambato, Ecuador

Abstract

In Ecuador, the City of Ambato has a public transport system dependent exclusively on oil derivatives. The Directorate of Traffic, Transport and Mobility Decentralized Autonomous Government Municipality of Ambato, GADMA, is responsible for the planning, organization and regulation of traffic of interparochial, intercantonal and urban land transport throughout the territory comprising the jurisdiction of the Ambato Canton. The Directorate of Traffic, Transport and Mobility prepares and signs the contracts of operation for the public transport in the city of Ambato. In this paper, a comparative analysis of the energy consumption, economic costs and environmental impact between fossil and electric buses for the urban public transport of the city of Ambato is evaluated. This study is based on information provided by the operating contracts of the Directorate of Traffic, Transport and Mobility of the Municipality of Ambato, on simulation of urban transport routes in ArcGIS software and on technical characteristic of fossil and electric buses provided by manufacturers.