ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Replacing Diesel Buses with Electric Buses
for Sustainable Public Transportation
and Reduction of CO2 Emissions
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Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Submission date: 2019-06-19
Final revision date: 2019-09-05
Acceptance date: 2019-10-08
Online publication date: 2020-03-05
Publication date: 2020-05-12
Corresponding author
Călin Iclodean
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Bd. Muncii 103-105, 400509, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(5):3339-3351
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Public buses ensure mobility for more than 450 billion passengers annually as a necessary means
of transportation in cities around the world. However, buses have an image problem in the eyes of the
urban population, because half of the buses in the EU urban transport fleet are in the best case classed
as Euro 3 (European emission standards). Consequently, the renewal of bus fleets should be a priority in
order to provide sustainable urban mobility. Our paper presents the benefits of replacing diesel buses in
the fleet of Compania de Transport Public (CTP) Cluj-Napoca with electric buses and the impact of this
change on the environment. Following the introduction of 11 electric buses into urban transportation,
to replace the same number of diesel buses this study evaluates and highlights the reduction of CO2
as the greatest bulk component of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the context of renewing the
public transport fleet of CTP Cluj-Napoca, the present work investigates the quantity of CO2 emissions
removed from city traffic. Currently, in major cities of the world, there are policies to reduce GHG
emissions by introducing the electric buses in the public transport fleet, moving toward the gradual
replacement of diesel buses.