The energy revolution for mobility requires a response adapted to the needs of end users. This question must, beyond the cost of new vehicles, consider the evolution of needs, technological evolutions and environmental strategies.

Florianópolis: Public Transport and Low-carbon Bus Technology

Based on the integrated Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan for the metropolitan area of Florianópolis, the project foresaw a gradual renewal of the bus fleet, partly by introducing clean technologies for buses through:

• Site inspections of routes considered the most suitable for introducing the recommended low-carbon bus technology options
• An inventory of low-carbon bus technology options (e.g. full-electric buses, plug-in hybrid electric buses, biogas fuelled propulsion technologies) along with associated options for energy supply and infrastructure technologies
• An elaboration of the qualitative advantages and disadvantages and risks of each low-carbon technology option
• Recommendations on promising low-carbon bus technology options within a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis.