Dissemination

Marta van Bergh

UITP

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ZeEUS as a brand

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ZeEUS as a brand

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 Website
Some numbers
Newsletter

Social media

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 Events and activities

(Local) events organised by ZeEUS Collaboration with projects and

institutions

Sharing knowledge at external Creating a community, networking

events opportunities

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 Electric buses set the stage for everything
Warsaw Pilsen

London

Bonn

Barcelona

Munster Cagliari

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 Press loves ZeEUS
• More than 330 articles, press
releases, blog posts, interviews…
(1,52 article/week!)
• 14 languages
• Local, national, international,
profession press

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Networking
Umberto Guida
Aida Abdulah
UITP

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 ELIPTIC, EBSF_2, ASSURED
FREVUE, GeM, JIVE, JIVE2,
EIB ERTRAC, EGVI
JASPER TRA / TRB
EBRD Academies, Universities
CEF,
EFSI…
… Research

UITP Network
Funding & Public National PT
financial Transport Associations
entities stakeholders User Group
National Observatory
eForum
eBus Observatory
PT Industry Group (E-
ZeEUS SORT)
PT Support Group
Policy / Rule Cities & (standard, tender)
Makers Citizens
Smart Cities &
Communities
EV4SCC,
CIVITAS, EAFO
EC Clean Bus Deployment
Electricity / POLIS, EMTA,
Industry Energy EUROCITIES
Initiative (declaration, expert
domain C40, UN-HABITAT
group…) stakeholders
EU Directives (CVD, DAFI…) Mobility weeks
CEN / CENELEC Mandate M533 Public events
National & local policies Eurelectric
(observatory) Network
… ACEA Bus & Coach Workshop with
Group energy suppliers
EUCAR HDV & PT users
UITP VEI, WGs
Busworld 9
 Examples of networking activities
Target group Event

Research Series of seminars at universitites, TRA 2014, TRA 2016,

stakeholders
Public Transport
stakeholders
Cities & Citizens
Electricity / Energy domain
UITP Summit 2015 and 2017, European Bus Forum 2015 and
2016, VDV Akademie 2013-2018
Cities forum 2015, CIVITAS conferences, Sustainable Mobility
Exhibiton, European Mobility Week
World of energy solutions 2015, workshop with Eurelectric

Industry Regular participation to UITP VEI Committee meetings

Policy / Rule Makers Polis annual conferences 2013-2017

Funding & financial Workshop organised with EBRD for the city of Batumi
entities

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ZeEUS User Group
• 20 operators and authorities, 4 dedicated meetings
• Contribute to the “Handbook of evaluation
methodologies for electric bus systems”
• Identification of ”Electric Bus Service Functions”
• Roles and responsibilities vis-a-vis Functions
• Priority indicators for each Function
• Participate to the discussion about the eBus charging
standardisation needs
• Provide inputs to the ZeEUS eBus Reports
• Last contribution will be the review of
• Roadmap for electric bus systems
• Bus Systems definition update

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 Monitored demonstrations
• Complement the study conducted within the
ZeEUS project
• Apply selected ZeEUS KPIs
• Contribute to the ZeEUS evaluation process

Helsinki Marseille Prague

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 Observatory
• 90 members, 6 workshops
• Contribution to:
• ZeEUS eBus Reports
• Participate to thematic Workshops
• Active participation to eForum

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ZeEUS eBus Report
Marta van den Bergh
UITP

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 ZeEUS eBus Report #2
• Updated overview of electric buses
in Europe
• BEV, PHEV and battery trolleybuses
• 90 cities, over 800 vehicles and
over 20 million km in pure electric
mode
• 32 manufacturers
• 8 electric system suppliers

Available on:

www.zeeus.eu
Electric bus technologies in Europe in 2017

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 E-BUSES IN EUROPE - TOP COUNTRIES SORT TYPE OF THE LINE

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160 SORT 3; 1%
140 SORT
116
120 102
2; 23%
100
80
54
60
38 43 44
40
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SORT
1;
TECHNOLOGY
75%
Battery
trolleybus
23%

E-buses
77%

E-buses Battery trolleybus

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 Chapter 2 - cities
CHARGING STRATEGY CHARGING TYPE

Induction
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Opportunity
22%
Pantograph
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Opportunity
+ overnight
39%

Plug-in
Overnight 409
39%

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Training
Aida Abdulah
UITP

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 Training programme on electric buses
7-8 April 2016, Warsaw, Poland
• Financed and developed by the ZeEUS project
• in cooperation with the UITP Centre for Training
• Programme:
• electric bus operation
• how to get the most value
• KPIs to evaluate performance
• technical visit of the ZeEUS Demo site
Target group: project managers, engineers, staff from PTO/PTA
planning to deploy e-buses, staff from the bus industry involved
in the market uptake of e-buses

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 Warsaw training set the ground for further training
programmes

Date Place No. of participants Nationalities

BE, FI, FR, DE, HU, IT, NL, PL, RO,
April 2016
Warsaw (Poland) 19 SK, CH, TR, UK
BE, DK, FR, DE, HU, IN, IT, LU, NO,
Sept 16
Geneva (Switzerland) 53 KR, SG, ES, SE, CH, TR, UK, USA
CN, FR, DE, HK, IN, KR, MY, NL,
Feb 2017
Shenzhen, Zhengzhou (China) 35 NZ, RU, SG, UK
Brussels, Rotterdam, KZ
March 2017 11
Barcelona, Geneva
AU, BE, CA, FR, DE, IN, IL, IT, NL,
June 2017
Barcelona (Spain) 50 NO, PL, SG, ES, SE, CH, TR, USA
July 2017
Pune (India) 48 IN
BE, BG, CA, DK, FR, DE, IT, MT,
Feb 2018
Marseille (France) 30 NL, SG, SI, CH, TR

10 locations 246 participants 36 nationalities

Satisfaction rate: 4,42/5

More training programmes in the pipeline!

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Education Modules
Prof. Antonio Musso
Sapienza Roma

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 ZeEUS Final Event

Education Module:
prepare the next generation
of Experts

Antonio Musso
March, 20th 2018 – Brussels
 The ZeEUS Education Module
(Task 42.8)
GOALS
- to review progress on the electro-mobility in PT, by investigating
the main trends affecting the market and the key drivers (technology,
cost – performance) enabling next developments;

- to arrange a learning process, by

translating the concepts deriving from the
ZeEUS Demos tasks into an academic
module, suitable for students interested
in learning or deepening knowledge
about electro-mobility.

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 Research areas definition
5 sub-modules
 Electro-mobility in Public Transport with a focus on
evaluation process of electro-mobility measures
(“Sapienza” University of Rome);
 Modelling environmental compatibility of Public Transport
(University of Applied Sciences, Landshut);
 Design of battery systems for electric buses (RWTH –
Aachen University);
 Passive safety of electric buses (University of West
Bohemia, Pilsen)
 Strategical planning and operational models of electric buses
(UPC - Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya)

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 Research areas definition
The logical coherence between the single contributions was reached by
applying a sort of “umbrella scheme”

How the e-mobility concepts can be applied in practice within

the PT system

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 Training activities
A training program was implemented by preparing selected
material and arranging a set of internal seminars, organized by the
academic partners involved in ZeEUS Project.

Seminars have been conceived as integrative lecturing activities

both within academic Transport Engineering Master Programs and
PhD courses.
They were tested at the venues of the partner Universities during
the past academic year

A Final Training workshop was organized as an

opportunity for widening and sharing the knowledge on
electro-mobility, by involving an international classroom.

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 The ZeEUS Training Workshop

3 days-training activities:
lectures by teachers of ZeEUS Universities + a
Technical visit (consistent with the Barcelona’s demo)

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 The ZeEUS Training Workshop

1st

day

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 The ZeEUS Training Workshop

2nd

day

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 The ZeEUS Training Workshop

3rd

day
This event has represented one of the first learning experience,
stemmed from a EU funded project, through which to integrate the
scientific knowledge with the industrial know-how in the field of
electrification of urban bus systems

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 Classroom activities

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 Technical visit

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 The ZeEUS Education Module

Following direct feedbacks from the students, it is likely to assume that topics
covered within this task could become de facto an integral part of the academic
modules activated by each partner University and by other Universities, also
after the project completion.

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 Education Module: prepare the next
generation of Experts

Thank you for your kind attention

Antonio Musso
antonio.musso@uniroma1.it
+39 0644585146

Cristiana Piccioni
cristiana.piccioni@uniroma1.it
+39 0644585736

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ZeEUS eBus Research Roadmap

Umberto Guida, UITP

Urban Electric
Bus System
Roadmap
ZeEUS worked
closely with ERTRAC
in the update of the
ERTRAC
Electrification
Roadmap
• Contribution for electric
urban bus systems
Research,
demonstrations and
actions to develop the
deployment
framework

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 Milestones
2020
• relatively small number of
electrified buses running
• adaptation of existing platforms
(first developments of new
vehicle platforms)
• auxiliaries optimized to reduce
energy consumption.
• First standards of automatic
charging and signal interfaces
(various charging concepts)
• First smart-charging in bus
depots and bus routes prepared
• Increase of e-bus routes
number.
• First automation in depot
movement, docking, charging
2025
• The production portfolio of
electrified city buses is
enhanced
• Buses improved regarding to
weight, costs, energy demand,
efficiency etc.
• Standards for automatic
charging and information
exchange should have been
established.
• Bus operators largely increase
the number of deployed
electrified buses and gather
further experiences out of
them.
• Increased automation during
operation
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• Bus operators have
converted a big part of their
fleet to electrified buses
(assuming that economic
targets have been met and
according to procurement
cycles).
• New generation of improved
electrified buses is
introduced to the market,
• full interactions between
vehicle and infrastructure
(energy and net
management)
• High automation, urban-bus
platooning
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