Funding: ADEME
EIGSI Project Manager: Nicolas Malhéné
Duration: March 2014 – April 2016
Partners: AIRPARIF, City of Paris, La Petite Reine, Renault
Description: The VELUD project aims at testing an electric light utility vehicle to reduce the negative impact last-mile delivery has on air quality. This vehicle has an innovative structure comprising a “tractor” and an “add-on”, i.e. a trailer secured above, which can be adapted for different uses. Grounded in an innovative concept, this experiment is intended to inform the considerations of the various stakeholders (manufacturers, operators, public decision-makers, etc.) regarding impacts on air quality.
To that end, VELUD entails four main activities:
- Trialling vehicles in the context of an operator’s delivery activities,
- Modelling of the fleet primarily comprising “VELUD” vehicles and extrapolation of performances for analysing the impact on air quality,
- Study of uses during the demonstrator to identify specific (expected and unexpected) uses for the “VELUD” vehicle,
- Development of the functional specifications of a digital environment for optimum use of this fleet (urban criteria, vehicle status, transport demand trends and so on).
