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Design of an Electric Bus Fleet and Determination of Economic Break-Even

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Operations Research Proceedings 2019

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In this contribution the planning and optimization of a mixed electric and diesel bus fleet for a municipal transportation company is presented. The goal and objective is to maximize the driven electric mileage without expanding the total number of buses in the fleet. Boundary conditions are driving schedules and timetable planning must be hold. Moreover, buses are to be charged exclusively in the depot. No opportunity charging outside the depot is allowed due to costs of additional installations. Based on an existing timetable, cycles are identified which can be driven with a parametrizable battery capacity. Furthermore, climatic conditions and weight of batteries, which are incorporated into the specific energy requirement per kilometer, are modeled.

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This work was supported by a grant from the SWK Mobil GmbH in a joined R&D Project.

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  1. SWK E2 Institute of Energy Technology and Energy Management, Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Science, Krefeld, Germany

    Marius Madsen & Marc Gennat

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  1. Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Janis S. Neufeld

  2. Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Udo Buscher

  3. Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Rainer Lasch

  4. Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Dominik Möst

  5. Faculty of Transportation and Traffic, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Jörn Schönberger

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Madsen, M., Gennat, M. (2020). Design of an Electric Bus Fleet and Determination of Economic Break-Even. In: Neufeld, J.S., Buscher, U., Lasch, R., Möst, D., Schönberger, J. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2019. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48439-2_32

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