Toward a Better Estimation of the Charging Corridor Length of In-Motion-Charging Trolleybuses

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Abstract

In-Motion-Charging (IMC) buses are destined to become a key player in sustainable urban transport as they combine the advantages of both trolleybuses (overhead supply mode) and e-buses (on-board battery mode). Defining the route ratio of these two modes of operation is a critical task in order to ensure that the IMC battery can complete a full trip once it is out of the charging corridor zone (i.e., out of the trolleybus operation zone). This paper offers a more correct approach to sizing the charging corridor than what is commonly found in literature, by including the effects of both the stopping and moving times of a typical IMC bus and by studying two charging schemes for the IMC bus battery charging. Errors as high as 16.4% and 17.6% were reported for the two charging schemes, respectively, when using the conventional methods found in literature for a case study using measurements of the trolleygrid city of Arnhem, the Netherlands.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2022
PublisherIEEE
Pages557-562
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-6654-0560-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2022 - Anaheim, United States
Duration: 15 Jun 202217 Jun 2022

Publication series

Name2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2022

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, ITEC 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnaheim
Period15/06/2217/06/22

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • Adaptive Charging
  • Electric vehicles
  • IMC
  • transport
  • trolleybus

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