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Selection of commercially available alternative passenger vehicle in automotive environment

Authors :
Tapas Biswas
Prasenjit Chatterjee
Bikash Choudhuri
Source :
Operational Research in Engineering Sciences: Theory and Applications, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Regional Association for Security and crisis management, Belgrade, Serbia, 2020.

Abstract

There has been a paradigm shift in the automobile industry due to e-mobility which reduces green-house gas emission and air pollution. In this context, selection of the most feasible automotive passenger vehicle is a complex decision-making problem due to the use of different power source, technology, specification and price. In this paper, five alternative vehicles based on fuel cell, hybrid electric, battery electric, plug in hybrid electric and compressed natural gas bi-fuel are evaluated using an integrated criteria importance through inter-criteria correlation (CRITIC) - Combined Compromise Solution (CoCoSo) method. CRITIC method is used to obtain the weights of the vehicle selection criteria, whereas, CoCoSo method is employed to rank the vehicles considering different technical and operational criteria such as greenhouse gas emission, fuel economy, vehicle range, accelerating time, annual fuel cost and vehicle base model cost. It is found that battery electric vehicle out performs all other considered alternatives. The validity of the results is verified by comparing with other well popular MCDM methods. Further, a sensitivity analysis is conducted by changing the criteria weights to establish the stability of the model.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
26201607 and 26201747
Volume :
3
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Operational Research in Engineering Sciences: Theory and Applications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.fe67d3f1f3f0422da9873fe525e953b4
Document Type :
article