With the advantages of zero emission and comfortable riding experience, battery-electric buses (BEBs) are widely adopted in public transit agencies as a green alternative to conventional diesel buses. Battery swapping technology is an efficient and promising charging technology to address the issues of battery range anxiety and long battery charging time. This study developed a two-stage optimization model to optimize the single-line battery-electric bus scheduling problem considering battery swapping. At the first stage, a bi-objective integer programming model is established to determine the minimum BEB fleet size, together with the BEB-to-trip assignment and battery swapping schedule. At the second stage, an integer linear programming model is formulated to determine the required minimum number of batteries. An $\epsilon$-constraint method is designed to investigate the trade-off between the required minimum fleet size and the number of back-up batteries. Finally, a real-world case study of a BEB line in Chengdu, China, is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the optimization model and solution method. Sensitivity analyses are further conducted to understand the impacts of some key parameters, including battery capacity, number of trips, cycle time, and battery swapping time. The results show that battery capacity and cycle time have significant influences on BEB-to-trip assignment results and battery swapping schedule.


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    Title :

    Optimal Scheduling of Single-Line Electric Buses with Battery Swapping


    Contributors:
    Guo, Yuyan (author) / Liu, Tao (author)


    Publication date :

    2023-10-28


    Size :

    875136 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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