Abstract
In recent years, transportation electrification has emerged as a trend to support energy efficiency and CO2 emissions reduction targets. The true success, however, of this trend depends on the successful integration of electric vehicles into the infrastructure systems that support them. In effect, electric vehicles and their supporting charging infrastructure couple the transportation and electrical power systems into a nexus. In the absence of fully deployed large scale electrified transportation systems, this paper argues the need for a transportation electrification test case analogous to those used ubiquitously in the power systems engineering field. It then presents such a test case; aptly called Symmetrica. It consists of a multi-modal electrified transportation system topology, an electric power topology, and activity-based use case data that spans transportation and charging. The paper concludes with several potential research areas where the test case may be applied.
Highlights
In recent years, electrified transportation has emerged as a trend to support energy efficiency and CO2 emissions reduction targets (Anair and Mahmassani 2012; Karabasoglu and Michalek 2013; Pasaoglu et al 2012; Raykin et al 2012; Yang and Wu 2012)
The potential applications identified in Section ‘Potential applications of the transportation electrification test case’ can continue to develop in ways that ensure a solid understanding of aggregate system behavior while respecting individual data privacy
Potential applications of the transportation electrification test case The integrated assessment results from the Abu Dhabi electric vehicle integration study motivated the need for an Intelligent Transportation-Energy System (Al Junaibi et al 2013; Junaibi 2013) which makes coordinated planning and operations time scale decisions across both domains
Summary
In recent years, electrified transportation has emerged as a trend to support energy efficiency and CO2 emissions reduction targets (Anair and Mahmassani 2012; Karabasoglu and Michalek 2013; Pasaoglu et al 2012; Raykin et al 2012; Yang and Wu 2012). The electric vehicles and their supporting charging infrastructure couple the transportation and electrical systems into a nexus. It argues the need for a transportation electrification test case analogous to those used ubiquitously in the power systems engineering field.
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