Financing Urban Logistics Projects - Sustainable Urban Logistics: Concepts, Methods and Information Systems - page 248

Table 1 Deployment trends for the chosen scenario

Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 and after

Number of installed
DSBs during the year

16 40 60 80 100 100 100

Number of vehicles
using the system

0 150 450 850 1150 1250 1250

Percentage of replaced cars 15 % 15 % 15 % 15 % 15 % 15 % 15 %

Table 2 Cost structure (in k€)

Investment costs
Cost type Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Technologic investments 27.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Infrastructure and civil works 40.25 60.37 50.31 50.31 50.31 0.00

Other investment costs 10.00 10.48 16.00 11.00 10.50 10.46

Total investment costs 77.25 70.85 66.31 61.31 60.81 10.46

DSB—operational costs
Cost type Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Functional costs 0.00 40.00 40.00 40.00 40.00 40.00

Maintenance 0.00 57.90 80.56 99.44 118.32 137.20

Other operational costs 0.00 0.11 0.34 0.64 0.86 0.94

Total operational costs 0.00 98.02 120.90 140.08 159.19 178.14

the users will need to replace their cards each year. The deployment trends of the
system and the number of vehicles consequently using it are reported on Table 1 .
In all scenarios, we make the assumption that operational costs will not change.
The details of those costs are found in Gonzalez-Feliu et al. ( 2013 ). The cost
structure can be summarized in Table 2 .
To finance the system and also to make it more efficient, it is necessary to ask a
fee to the users, in order to both contribute to its development and be more
involved in using it as well as in defending its good usage. The following CBA
(one for each scenario) will be made to find the better fee to ensure a viable system
and then continuous in time.

4.3 Transport Carrier Benefits

Before making a CBA for each scenario, it is important to define the benefits of
transport carriers to estimate the values that fees to ask to carriers can take. This
value corresponds to the maximum fee transport carriers would accept to pay. To
obtain this value, we need first to estimate the benefits of a DSB for a transport
company. In this case, we can identify four direct benefits for a carrier: