Comparison of Continuous and Discontinuous Charging Models for the Electric Bus Scheduling Problem

Maros Janovec, Michal Kohani

2020

Abstract

Electric buses offer an alternative to conventional vehicles in the public transport system due to their low operational costs and low emissions. Therefore, the standard problems must be resolved with respect to the nature of the electric buses, which is mainly the reduced driving range and charging time. In this paper, we deal with the electric bus scheduling problem. We propose changes to the previously presented model, which allowed only the continuous charging. These changes will allow the model to describe also discontinuous charging when the electric bus can be unplugged during the charging, then let another electric bus to charge and after that plug-in to charger again. These two formulations are tested by IP solver and the solutions and performance of both discontinuous charging and continuous charging formulations are compared on the datasets generated from the data provided by public transport system provider DPM Zǐn the city of Žilina.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Janovec M. and Kohani M. (2020). Comparison of Continuous and Discontinuous Charging Models for the Electric Bus Scheduling Problem. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-396-4, pages 179-186. DOI: 10.5220/0008962901790186

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores20,
author={Maros Janovec and Michal Kohani},
title={Comparison of Continuous and Discontinuous Charging Models for the Electric Bus Scheduling Problem},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2020},
pages={179-186},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008962901790186},
isbn={978-989-758-396-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Comparison of Continuous and Discontinuous Charging Models for the Electric Bus Scheduling Problem
SN - 978-989-758-396-4
AU - Janovec M.
AU - Kohani M.
PY - 2020
SP - 179
EP - 186
DO - 10.5220/0008962901790186