Simulation verification of Location of Charging Stations for Electric Buses

Abstract

The paper describes the usage of simulation model of public city transport to evaluate the results of the mathematical model for the electric infrastructure design for battery electric buses in public city transport. Proposed mathematical model solves the problem of optimal locations of charging stations for electric buses in public transportation. Possible location of charging stations are on terminal stops and depots of electric buses. Mathematical model of the problem is solved using general IP-solver Xpress and can provide results for large-scale problems. The simulation model is used for verification of location of charging stations proposed by mathematical model. Simulation model is created in Anylogic simulation tool. In the paper we describe mathematical model, simulation model, extension of simulation model for ability to simulate operation of electric buses in every day use, and results of experiments with the simulation and optimization model on the test datasets created from operational data of the city of Zilina.