Abstract:

Despite the considerable advancement of various technologies based on broadly defined digitalization, the electrification of trucks remains an unpopular area, especially in terms of implementing new charging points. This is undoubtedly an area where crucial decisions are being made regarding actions to reduce exhaust emissions, which are crucial from the perspective of climate change. Therefore, the electrification of trucks, related to aspects of transport tasks and the transport of large loads using electric heavy-duty vehicles, depends on the deployment of charging points, which are part of the alternative fuel infrastructure.

With this in mind, and in particular the observed research gap in this area, it was deemed appropriate to identify the problem of truck electromobility in the area of ​​overland freight transport on the TEN-T network on Poland's leading routes. Based on this, the main goal of the research was defined: to analyze and forecast the infrastructure needs for electric truck transport along the A1 and A2 motorways in Poland. In this article, the research process involved analyzing the general and detailed locations of electric vehicle charging points based on field surveys and inventory data as well as data from spatial information systems. The spatial data processing and interpolation analyses were performed using ArcGIS tools, which are specialized tools for analyzing data related to electromobility. For a more comprehensive depiction of the phenomenon, the Inverse Distance Weighting method was used to present the results in cartographic form, which enabled the presentation of the results both as a heat map showing the forecasted concentration of charging points for trucks in Poland.