Italian TEN-T road network and Hydrogen Refueling Station nodes

This folder contains three ESRI-shapefiles (representing respectively the network edges, the network nodes and the resulting positions found with an optimization framework to site hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) in Italy) and a CSV-file used to characterize the vehicle traffic flow on each origin-destination path on the represented network. network_nodes.shp There are different type of nodes: NUTS-3 nodes, being the possible origin or destination nodes. They represent the weighted centroid of the NUTS-3 region they refer to. Fuel areas centroids: obtained as the centroids of the dissolved buffer areas of the conventional fuel stations on the road network. Intersection nodes: manually added on the network nodes intersections. Main road entrances. Port nodes. network_edges.shp The edges represent the Trans-European Network (TEN-T) core and comprehensive layers. Some edges are manually added: Edges connecting NUTS-3 nodes to the main road network; Ferry edges, which have "road length" equal to 0, as they do not imply fuel consumption for road trucks. italian_paths_OD_NUTS3_vR1.csv Containing O-D paths thorugh the TEN-T road network from each origin to each destination. Each path is represented as an ordered succession of nodes and of their positions with respect to the origin node. For each path an estimation of the tons and trucks expected on it by 2030 is given. HRS_nodes.shp HRS nodes position and specifications obtained with an optimization framework to serve the national freight transport system if vehicles paths with dist_ROAD > 100 km, Traffic_flow_trucks_2030 >= 2600, initial vehicle range = 300 and maximum vehicle range = 600 km are considered. The fuel cell hydrogen electric vehicles share over the total number of circulating vehicles is assumed equal to 10%.