DHEELS Demonstrating Highly Energy Effective Logistics Solutions

Purpose and goal:

DHEELS will demonstrate and evaluate highly energy effective logistics systems with high-capacity truck train configurations for different types of cases, driven by fossil-free energy. Truck train configurations related to safety, user acceptance, durability, and reliability; availability of fossil free energy, resilient technologies, and infrastructures; and reasonable freight customer business consequences; will be investigated in a stepwise approach.

The goal is to support legislation development so that market solutions and implementations can be offered. Expected results and effects:

The project will establish and operate a structured platform as a base to achieve system innovation and learning about how energy efficient, high capacity, cost-effective, equally interoperable electrified logistics systems should be designed and implemented, by competitively demonstrating different types of logistics systems. Based on, among other things, detailed data for how the various subsystems function, as well as analyzes of energy efficiency, behavioral consequences, operating costs and business opportunities, proposals for policy development will be drawn up.

Approach and implementation:

The project is structured in 7 vertical and 8 horizontal work packages. In the vertical work packages, demonstrations of different total and partial system solutions will be established, operated and analyzed by different consortia with actors from the value chain. Results from the demonstrations will be shared, with the exception of business-critical information, to the horizontal work packages where joint system work is conducted to create an effective system architecture in terms of technical and social terms. The project consortia include 26 parties and will run during 3 yrs.