Enuba 2
Foto: Siemens
New joint research project of the Federal Environment Ministry on electric mobility is based on interdisciplinary competences in Dresden
TU Dresden’s faculty Transport Science “Friedrich List” is researching together with the Siemens AG (Sector Infrastructure and Cities, Division Mobility and Logistics) on the opportunities of electrifying the heavy truck traffic on long distances roads. ENUBA is a large-scale research project and stands for electric mobility for heavy utility vehicles to relief the environment of metropolitan areas. ENUBA is current in the phase 2 and commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety with a project volume of about 15 Mio EUR.
Starting point for the project are the foreseeable challenges for the road transport, which will change strongly due to the dependence of crude oil as well as the emission and resource problem. The electric mobility can help here to improve at least some sections. While hybrid drives with electric energy storages are the favourite solutions for individual mobility and inner-city logistic, there is so far no technical solution for height power and large ranges on the road. But there is a technical solution on the railways since more than 100 years. By the electrification of long distance roads with the usage of classic contact line systems and powerful full hybrid drives in the vehicles, the heavy road transport could be enabled to go long distances with no fuel consumption, free of emissions and with reduced noise. The basic idea of the project is to build the power supply only on long and/or steep routes, whereas for crossing areas and for the “last mile” there is a classic combustion engine with a generator and optional an energy storage for the electric drive power.
The research project ENUBA 2 has the duration from May 2012 until mid-2014 and is built on the previous project, which demonstrated the technical feasibility by the test facility in Templin. From now on, the concept targets on technical development and the economic-ecology, safety technical as well as the planning assessment. Here starts the task of the TU Dresden with the interdisciplinary faculty transport science. The technical tasks are the determination of the contact performance and wear behaviour of the fully automatic pantograph with the contact line, the protection safety issues, noise emissions, psychologic effects, construction and maintenance subjects as well as the planning-legal feasibility of the integration of electric components in the road area. Taking into account all these aspects, it is expected to develop a statement on the economic electrification worthiness of long distance roads and the ecological assessment of the whole System. Seitens der TU Dresden sind die verkehrswissenschaftlichen Professuren für Elektrische Bahnen (Federführung), Gestaltung von Straßenverkehrsanlagen, Verkehrspsychologie, Verkehrsökologie sowie Verkehrsleitsysteme und –prozessautomatisierung an ENUBA 2 beteiligt.
The cooperation with the company Siemens in this project is also a result of the long-standing successful cooperation relationship between the TU Dresden and Siemens. Already 2004, there was a framework agreement of the – at the time – Siemens Transportation in Erlangen with the chair of Electric Railways at the TU Dresden. Furthermore, there was signed a framework agreement between the Siemens AG Munich and the TU Dresden in the year 2006.
Contakt:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arnd Stephan
Technische Universität Dresden
Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften „Friedrich List“
Professur für Elektrische Bahnen