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Title: E-transit-bench: simulation platform for analyzing electric public transit bus fleet operations
When electrified transit systems make grid aware choices, improved social welfare is achieved by scheduling charging at low grid impact locations and times causing reduced loss, minimal power quality issues and reduced grid stress. Electrifying transit fleet has numerous challenges like non availability of buses during charging, varying charging costs, etc., that are related the electric grid behavior. However, transit systems do not have access to the information about the co-evolution of the grid’s power flow and therefore cannot account for the power grid’s needs in its day to day operation. In this paper we propose a framework of transportation-grid co-simulation analyzing the spatio-temporal interaction between the transit operations with electric buses and the power distribution grid. Real-world data for a day’s traffic from Chattanooga city’s transit system is simulated in SUMO and integrated with a realistic distribution grid simulation (using GridLAB-D) to understand the grid impact due to the transit electrification. Charging information is obtained from the transportation simulation to feed into grid simulation to assess the impact of charging. We also discuss the impact to the grid with higher degree of Transit electrification that further necessitates such an integrated Transportation-Grid co-simulation to operate the integrated system optimally. Our future work includes extending the platform for optimizing the charging and trip assignment operations.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1743772 1952011
PAR ID:
10356662
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy 2022)
Page Range / eLocation ID:
532 to 541
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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