scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emission of Diesel and Electric Trucks for Food Distribution in Gowanus District of New York City

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghul Elangovan ◽  
Ondrea Kanwhen ◽  
Ziqian Dong ◽  
Ahmed Mohamed ◽  
Roberto Rojas-Cessa
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
York City ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Industrial Zone ◽  
Diesel Trucks

New York City’s food distribution system is among the largest in the United States. Food is transported by trucks from twelve major distribution centers to the city’s point-of-sale locations. Trucks consume large amounts of energy and contribute to large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, there is interest to increase the efficiency of New York City’s food distribution system. The Gowanus district in New York City is undergoing rezoning from an industrial zone to a mix residential and industrial zone. It serves as a living lab to test new initiatives, policies, and new infrastructure for electric vehicles. We analyze the impact of electrification of food-distribution trucks on greenhouse gas emissions and electricity demand in this paper. However, such analysis faces the challenges of accessing available and granular data, modeling of demands and deliveries that incorporate logistics and inventory management of different types of food retail stores, delivery route selection, and delivery schedule to optimize food distribution. We propose a framework to estimate truck routes for food delivery at a district level. We model the schedule of food delivery from a distribution center to retail stores as a vehicle routing problem using an optimization solver. Our case study shows that diesel trucks consume 300% more energy than electric trucks and generate 40% more greenhouse gases than diesel trucks for food distribution in the Gowanus district.

scholarly journals Further Opportunities to Reduce the Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Buildings

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hsu ◽  
Ting Meng ◽  
Albert Han ◽  
Daniel Suh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
York City ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Data Set

Buildings and energy systems are shaped within many different kinds of departments and agencies throughout local governments. This article argues that further opportunities exist to reduce the energy use of buildings and their associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the existing powers and jurisdiction of local governments. We use the example of New York City, where buildings produced 73 percent of all GHG emissions in 2014. By analyzing a data set of almost four thousand large buildings, we identify new opportunities for planners and other professionals to reduce energy use and GHG emissions by focusing on different mechanisms and/or collaborations.

scholarly journals Emissions from the Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Transportation Sector in New York City

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Roberton ◽  
Stephan Schmidt ◽  
Rodney Stiles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
York City ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Emissions Inventory ◽  
Transportation Sector ◽  
The Impact

<p>The launch of app-based for-hire vehicle (FHV) services like Uber and Lyft has led to increased mobility options, but the associated increase in vehicular traffic has also presented challenges. In New York City, the number of FHVs tripled between 2010 and 2019, to over one hundred thousand, due to the advent of such companies. This study seeks to understand the impact this increase in FHV usage has had on greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. The study uses data collected by the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates the FHV and taxi industries, and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, which publishes the City’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory. The main result of the study is that although the overall per-vehicle efficiency of the fleet has improved, the high growth in registered vehicles has led to emissions from FHVs and taxis increasing 66 percent from 2010 to 2018. Electric vehicles present an opportunity for emissions reductions in New York City’s FHV fleet if barriers to vehicle adoption are adequately addressed and if adoption of EVs does not outpace vehicle attrition. </p>

scholarly journals Emissions from the Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Transportation Sector in New York City

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Roberton ◽  
Stephan Schmidt ◽  
Rodney Stiles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
York City ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Emissions Inventory ◽  
Transportation Sector ◽  
The Impact

<p>The launch of app-based for-hire vehicle (FHV) services like Uber and Lyft has led to increased mobility options, but the associated increase in vehicular traffic has also presented challenges. In New York City, the number of FHVs tripled between 2010 and 2019, to over one hundred thousand, due to the advent of such companies. This study seeks to understand the impact this increase in FHV usage has had on greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. The study uses data collected by the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates the FHV and taxi industries, and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, which publishes the City’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory. The main result of the study is that although the overall per-vehicle efficiency of the fleet has improved, the high growth in registered vehicles has led to emissions from FHVs and taxis increasing 66 percent from 2010 to 2018. Electric vehicles present an opportunity for emissions reductions in New York City’s FHV fleet if barriers to vehicle adoption are adequately addressed and if adoption of EVs does not outpace vehicle attrition. </p>

Asthma, Allergy, and Air Pollution

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge F. Goldstein ◽  
Martin Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
New York City ◽  
Emergency Room ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
York City Department ◽  
Diesel Trucks ◽  
The City

One night in early October 1997, Felipe G., a nine-year-old child of Dominican immigrants to New York City living in East Harlem, woke up struggling for breath. Felipe had had asthma attacks before, and his parents knew, or thought they knew, what to do: they called for an ambulance, which rushed him to the emergency room of Harlem Hospital nearby. But this time he stopped breathing on the way to the hospital, and could not be revived there. His younger sister Ana also has asthma, but so far has never had to go to the emergency room. The tenement building in which Felipe’s family lives is three blocks from the Harlem River Drive, a highway on which thousands of cars travel each workday, emitting, in spite of their catalytic converters, large quantities of oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and incompletely combusted gasoline. Several blocks north is a parking garage for the diesel trucks of the New York City Department of Sanitation. The drivers of the trucks that use the lot often keep their motors idling, so that great quantities of diesel exhaust particles are emitted to the surrounding area. The Harlem district of New York City, inhabited mainly by African-Americans and Hispanics, is shielded to a large extent from the prevailing west winds by higher areas on the west side of Manhattan. Hence, air pollution produced within Harlem—for example, by cars, diesel trucks, and buses, and by an electric power generating plant located there—tends to remain longer than in other areas of the city. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection operated a network of air monitoring stations from the 1940s to the 1970s, during which time Harlem was consistently found to be the most polluted area in the city. It had then, and still has, one of the highest rates of hospitalization for asthma in the city. In most countries, asthma is more common among children of higher social class. In the United States this pattern is reversed: people living in the inner cities of the United States, mostly low-income minorities, have higher rates of asthma than other Americans.

Biological stability of drinking water in new York City

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 181-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Jolis ◽  
W. W. Faber ◽  
V. Diyamandoglu
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Biological Activity ◽  
York City ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Drinking Water Distribution Systems

A study was carried out to determine the degree of biological activity in the drinking water supplied to New York City by the Croton and Catskill/Delaware systems, as measured by the Attached Growth Rate Estimate (AGRE) method. Also, possible relationships between AGRE results and standard water quality parameters were examined. The AGRE results for both the systems ranged between 0 and 0.5 d−1, indicative of biologically stable water. These results suggest that excessive bacterial growth in the New York City distribution system would be rare. The Croton results were temperature and alkalinity dependent. The Catskill/Delaware results revealed that growth rates decreased with travel time in the distribution system. These differences emphasize the complexity of biological activity monitoring in drinking water distribution systems.

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