Conflict-free Charging and Real-time Control for an Electric Bus Network
Paper in proceeding, 2023

The rapid adoption of electric buses by transit agencies around the world is leading to new challenges in the planning and operation of bus networks. In particular, the limited driving range of electric vehicles imposes operational constraints such as the need to charge buses during service. Research on this topic has mostly focused on the strategic and tactical planning aspects until now, and very little work has been done on the real-time operational aspect. To remedy this, we propose integrating the charging scheduling problem with a real-time speed control strategy in this paper. The control problem is formulated as a mixed-integer linear program and solved to optimality with the branch-and-bound method. Simulations are carried out by repeatedly solving the control problem in a receding horizon fashion over a full day of operation. The results show that the proposed controller manages to anticipate and avoid potential conflicts where the charging demand exceeds the charger capacity. This feature makes the controller achieve lower operational costs, both in terms of service regularity and energy consumption, compared to a standard first-come, first-served charging scheme.

electric busses

charging

bussnetwork control

Planning and management of public transportation

Bussystem

Electric and solar vehicles

Scheduling and optimization of transportation systems

Author

Rémi Lacombe

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

Nikolce Murgovski

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

Sebastien Gros

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

Balázs Adam Kulcsár

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

IFAC-PapersOnLine

24058971 (ISSN) 24058963 (eISSN)

Vol. 56 2 6648-6653

22nd IFAC World Congress
Yokohama, Japan,

OPerational Network Energy managemenT for electrified buses (OPNET)

Swedish Energy Agency (46365-1), 2018-10-01 -- 2021-12-31.

Subject Categories

Other Computer and Information Science

Transport Systems and Logistics

Control Engineering

Computer Science

Areas of Advance

Transport

DOI

10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.366

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