Abstract When designing new electric vehicles for urban transport, both vehicle producers and operators need to establish and verify requirements that the vehicle has to fulfil regarding, e.g., energy storage capacity, driving range, or battery wear. These requirements are typically verified using simulation tools that concentrate mostly on electrical quantities, but disregard the influence of road infrastructure, surrounding traffic and detours. At the same time, an expansion of the electric vehicle fleet may have a negative impact on the existing power grid. Sufficient dimensioning of the grid elements and their verification are therefore necessary to keep the electric transport service reliable. This paper demonstrates a tool suitable for verification of battery-assisted trolleybus fleet and power infrastructure parameters, based on extensions to the SUMO traffic simulator. The tool carries out a joint simulation of electric and traffic-related quantities. It is demonstrated on seven use-cases inspired by real-life problems.

    Highlights A tool to verify battery-assisted trolleybus fleet configuration is presented. Includes fast DC power grid solver for electric grid analysis. Combines traffic and electric circuit simulation to study mutual interactions. The effect of surrounding traffic on vehicle power demands is considered. Study of different parameters of a sample trolleybus network is presented.


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    Title :

    In-motion charged vehicle simulation considering traffic and power grid interactions


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    Publication date :

    2022-05-14




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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