Abstract
The research on Bus Fleet Management (BFM) has undergone significant changes. It is unclear whether these changes are accepted as technological change or as a paradigm shift. Perhaps unintentionally, BFM is still perceived as routing and scheduling by some, and by others as maintenance and replacement strategy. Therefore, the authors conducted a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to overview the existing concepts and school of thoughts about how stakeholders perceive the BFM. The SLR post-study exposed that BFM should be acknowledged as a multi-realm system rather than a uniform dimension of fulfilling timely service. Nonetheless, the work encapsulates BFM evolution which shows the need for the multi-realm research abstracted as "Bus Fleet Mobility Management" and "Bus Fleet Asset Management". The difficulties of transport agencies and their ability to switch from conventional to Zero-Emission Buses (ZEBs) illustrates why we propose such an agenda, by which the research is validated through needs both in academia and in practice.
Highlights
The transport industry is an integral part of the economy, and in the EU employs directly around 10 million people accounting for about 5% of GDP [1]
The difficulties of transport agencies and their ability to switch from conventional to Zero-Emission Buses (ZEBs) illustrates why we propose such an agenda, by which the research is validated through needs both in academia and in practice
The propositions and tenets of Bus Fleet Management (BFM) brought little to the table in the sense of clearness behind the concepts since most researchers conceive BFM as various interrelated activities
Summary
The transport industry is an integral part of the economy, and in the EU employs directly around 10 million people accounting for about 5% of GDP [1]. Even though these numbers stress out the social and economic impact, transit agencies need to evolve beyond the environmental impact [3, 4] and move towards the concept of integrated sustainability [5]. The fleet managers should no longer be solely responsible for routing and scheduling problems; on the contrary, they must rely on performance associated with fuel economy [6], availability [7,8,9], operational efficiency [10, 11], life cycle management [12], and pollution [13, 14] – highlighting the complexity of decision-making in the BFM domain. Unplait the complexity of BFM tasks, the authors will give a brief overview of the BFM and BFMS (Bus Fleet Management System), and the differences within
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