Highlights Flexible charging, battery degradation, nonlinear charging profile, and TOU plan are incorporated to make BEB fleet and charging schedules. An integrated optimization model for timetable shifting and joint fleet and charging scheduling is formulated. A two-stage solution method is suggested to combine the column generation technique and timetable shifting algorithm. Full-flexible charging and timetable shifting strategies can efficiently improve the utilization rate and reduce peak power demand.

    Abstract In a battery electric bus (BEB) network, buses are scheduled to perform timetabled trips while satisfying time, energy consumption, charging, and operational constraints. Increasing research efforts have been dedicated to the integrated optimization of multiple planning tasks to reduce system costs. At a high integration level, this study determines the BEB scheduling and charging planning with flexible charging and timetable shifting strategies. We first formulate an integrated arc-based model to minimize the total costs considering the power grid pressure cost and subsequently reformulate it into a two-stage model, for which we develop an effective solution method. The first stage minimizes the total operational costs including the fleet, charging, and battery degradation costs based on the column generation technique, and the second stage minimizes the peak power demand through two timetable shifting strategies. It is found through numerical experiments that the proposed integrated optimization model and solution method can achieve significant improvement in the utilization rate and reductions in the fleet size, operational costs, and peak power demand compared to the two baseline models.


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    Title :

    Integrated optimization of electric bus scheduling and charging planning incorporating flexible charging and timetable shifting strategies


    Contributors:
    Duan, Mengyuan (author) / Liao, Feixiong (author) / Qi, Geqi (author) / Guan, Wei (author)


    Publication date :

    2023-05-15




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English