Optimising Electric Flex-Route Feeder Transit Service with Dynamic Wireless Charging Technology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-27-2024

Abstract

The emergence of battery electric buses (BEBs) can alleviate environmental problems caused by tailpipe emissions in transit system. However, the high cost of on-board batteries and range anxiety hinder its further development. Recently, the advent of dynamic wireless power transfer technology (DWPT) has become a potential solution to promote the development of BEBs. Hence, this study focuses on the application of DWPT in flex-route transit system. A mixed integer non-linear model is proposed to simultaneously optimise the bus routing and the selection of corresponding bus types considering the constraints of passengers’ travel time, battery size and bus capacity. The objective is to minimise both transit agency cost and passengers’ travel time cost. A tangible hybrid variable neighbourhood search (HVNS) consisting of simulated annealing (SA) and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) is developed to solve the proposed model efficiently. Compared with GAMS (DICOPT solver) and VNS, the proposed algorithm can considerably improve computational efficiency. The results suggest that the proposed model can effectively determine the BEBs’ routing and bus type for flex-route transit system powered by DWPT through a case study in Xi’an China. A comparative analysis shows the proposed model takes 12.97% less total cost than the alternative model with terminal charging technology (TCT).

Identifier

85203053950 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Promet - Traffic and Transportation

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v36i4.494

ISSN

03535320

First Page

654

Last Page

672

Issue

4

Volume

36

Grant

2021JZ-20

Fund Ref

Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province

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