Water Management Solutions to Decrease Water Consumption and Mitigate CO2 Emissions in Europe

Predictive Maintenance Systems (PdM) for bus fleets are becoming more and more necessary to speed up operations and maximize resources at garages, espe-cially when it comes to plan spare parts substitutions, repair operations, prevent breakdowns and manage the generated waste. However, some regular mainte-nance operations are yet to be integrated within PdM either because still carried out according to the maintenance staff experience or simply because neglected or underestimated. Among these, two are more urgent to address due to their potential in mitigating negative impacts on the environment: emissions control and water management. Coherently with such need, the paper introduces some innovative Dashboard Functions (DF) to integrate a software-based PdM. The first DF is aimed at assessing the emissions generated by buses, especially when fleets are composed by pre-EURO VI vehicles. The second DF is focused on the water management and control for washing buses: an underestimated issue. The outcomes of integrating the assessment of emissions and water in the soft-ware are described, with a special focus for the former on the problem associat-ed with older vehicles and some special parts of them specifically contributing to the emissions phenomenon; the latter, in turn, is centered on the application of different washing technology. All of the above with the research goal to ad-vance scientific knowledge in this field and provide a truly remarkable example of environmental sustainability best practice in the PdM applications.