Halona I. Improving Energy Efficiency of Transporting Small Consignments within the Life Cycle of a Car

The dissertation is focused on improving the energy efficiency of the small consignments transportation within the vehicle life cycle (VLC) and taking into account technologically innovative preferences of carriers to ensure the development of road transport processes. To improve the energy efficiency of the light-duty vehicles (LDV) and transport processes, the new methods and approaches are proposed that provide strategies: technological and operational energy saving in road transport processes, increasing the technical and technological competitiveness of the future transport proposals and marketing substantiation of the new LDVs as a means of energy efficient transportation of goods. The purpose of the thesis is to improve the energy efficiency of transportation of small consignments of goods based on a multivariate analysis of the LDVs transport energy efficiency indicators and technologically innovative transportation processes based on the vehicle life cycle principle. The existing approaches to choosing and justifying LDV are simplified and imperfect in terms of transport technologies. They do not take into account: resource and technical characteristics of LDV, as a means of transportation, the main structural and technical characteristics of LDV and the parameters of their technological operation. In this regard, in order to solve the scientific and technical problem of operational management of the LDV transport energy efficiency and transportation processes, in a market economy, it is necessary to use the proposed innovative technical and technological approach to its solution at different stages of the vehicle life cycle. The proposed methods for the complex improvement of the LDV’s transport energy efficiency and transportation make it possible to scientifically substantiate innovative road transport projects, taking into account technical and technological factors within the LDV life cycle, as well as to form technologically innovative preferences of the carriers in market conditions.