Inductive power transfer (IPT) systems offer a promising solution to multiple major hurdles associated with electric vehicles, such as the lack of widespread charging infrastructure, driving range anxiety, and significant charging time. With the aid of IPT systems, dynamic wireless charging enables electric vehicles to be charged when running over the IPT power pads. The objective of this study is to minimise the overall cost of charging infrastructure by optimising the deployment of IPT transmitters and the battery size required to support charging for electric buses. A mixed-integer linear programming model is proposed and solved using the commercial solver Gurobi. Bus route information and the characteristics of electric buses, such as weight, drag coefficient and frontal area, are used as input to run the traffic simulation in SUMO to get time-varying velocity and acceleration data during bus operations. A bus route in Auckland, New Zealand, is used as a case study in the presented numerical experiments. A strong correlation between the velocity of the bus and the state of charge is identified. The largest cost component is the charging pad, followed by the battery.
Optimal deployment of dynamic wireless charging infrastructure for battery electric buses – a case study in Auckland, New Zealand
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND
B. DU ET AL.
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand ; 55 , 4 ; 1091-1110
2025-08-08
20 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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