CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Ilyashenko, Nataliya |
|---|---|
| Title | Fuel Efficiency in the 21st Century: Identifying Drivers and Barriers for E-Mobility Integration at the Budapest International Airport |
| Summary | The 2010 European Strategy on facilitating the introduction of more environmentally friendly and efficient vehicles addresses the necessity to prevent the road transportation pollution. This Strategy discusses the electric vehicle re-introduction that originated several years ago as one of the solutions. This thesis investigated the drivers and barriers of integrating electric vehicles into the Budapest Airport operations in order to reduce GHG emissions produced by the transportation sector and to generate savings. The research question investigated whether the EV technology could satisfy those goals. The key objective of this study was to facilitate the exchange of experiences between the Frankfurt, Vienna and Budapest International Airports. The two successful case study airports of Frankfurt and Vienna provided crucial information on the drivers and barriers associated with the EV integration into their daily work. The main barriers were the high investment cost of the vehicle and battery, lack of major governmental incentives to purchase the EVs and not standardized expensive infrastructure. The key drivers included the GHG emissions abatement, air quality enhancement, cheap electricity as a fuel, predictability for the airport short-distance Ground Support Equipment sector and avoidance of the energy security issue of fossil fuel. In the end, the study determined that the electric vehicles were suitable for the Budapest Airport since they can yield financial savings and emissions reduction within the short distance – low speed transportation sector at the Budapest airport. More research will have to be done on the long distance – high speed sector. |
| Supervisor | Zoltan Illes |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/ilyashenko_nataliya.pdf |
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