To promote wide-spread adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs), various government organizations are providing subsidies for installation of charging infrastructure in various countries and encouraging the adoption of Electric Buses (EV Buses) for city transportation. Though EV Buses are environment-friendly, the buses as well as the charging facilities including quick chargers and rechargeable Stationary Storage Batteries (SSBs) are expensive. Therefore, it is expected that in near future some of the city buses of a route will be replaced with EV Buses, and SSBs along with grid power will be used to charge these buses. In that situation, proper operation and charging scheduling of the EV Buses will be needed. In this paper, we propose a k-Greedy Algorithm-based approach for this task. We perform simulations by using the real bus diagram data of four bus routes of a city bus route network in Japan and evaluate the algorithm from various perspectives. Our simulation results suggest that the k-Greedy Algorithm can maximize the travel distance of the EV Buses, which contributes to reducing fuel cost and CO2 emission for a bus operator.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Operation and charging scheduling of electric buses in a city bus route network


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2014-10-01


    Size :

    412197 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Operation and Scheduling of Pure Electric Buses under Regular Charging Mode

    Jiang, Mengyan / Zhang, Yi / Zhang, Canrong et al. | IEEE | 2018


    CHARGING SCHEDULING SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF FOR ELECTRIC BUSES

    WANG JOHN C / HOU YI-AN / KUNG CHUN-HUNG et al. | European Patent Office | 2022

    Free access

    Charging scheduling systems and methods thereof for electric buses

    WANG JOHN C / HOU YI-AN / KUNG CHUN-HUNG et al. | European Patent Office | 2023

    Free access

    Location Planning of Charging Stations for Electric City Buses

    Berthold, Kilian / Förster, Peter / Rohrbeck, Brita | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2015


    Location Planning of Charging Stations for Electric City Buses

    Berthold, Kilian / Förster, Peter / Rohrbeck, Brita | Springer Verlag | 2017