Electrification of a bus system with fast charging stations

Impact of battery degradation on design decisions

Journal Article (2022)
Author(s)

Shadi Sharif Sharif Azadeh ( Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, TU Delft - Transport and Planning)

J Vester ( Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

Yousef Maknoon (TU Delft - Transport and Logistics)

Transport and Planning
Copyright
© 2022 S. Sharif Azadeh, J. Vester, M.Y. Maknoon
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2022.103807
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Publication Year
2022
Language
English
Copyright
© 2022 S. Sharif Azadeh, J. Vester, M.Y. Maknoon
Transport and Planning
Volume number
142
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Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the cost of the electrification of an existing bus network. We propose a family of bi-objective mathematical models to demonstrate the trade-off between strategic (i.e., battery sizing and the locations of charging stations) and operational decisions (i.e., battery degradation). The proposed mathematical models investigate different charging policies and measure their impacts on overall cost. Battery degradation is estimated by a tailored and linearized semi-empirical approach and is explicitly incorporated in the proposed mixed-integer linear models. The impact of different charging policies on reducing the overall costs is evaluated for a bus network in Rotterdam. The results show that allowing for flexibility in the loss of energy levels at each bus cycle results in savings up to 17% in battery aging.