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Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy ›› 2022, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (3): 407-420.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2022.03.001

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Urban electric bus operation management: Review and outlook

QU Xiaobo1(), LIU Yajun2, CHEN Yuwei2, BIE Yiming2,*()   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
    2. School of Transportation, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
  • Received:2022-08-23 Online:2022-09-30 Published:2022-10-04
  • Contact: BIE Yiming E-mail:xiaobo@tsinghua.edu.cn;yimingbie@126.com
  • About author:Prof. QU Xiaobo Xiaobo Qu is a Changjiang Chair Professor with School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University. Prior to his current appointment, he was a Chair Professor with Chalmers University of Technology, and a faculty member with two Australian universities from 2012—2018. His research is focused on improving large, complex and interrelated urban mobility systems by integrating with emerging technologies. He is the editor in chief of the Communications in Transportation Research and the executive editor in chief of Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles. He also serves as an associate editor or on the editorial boards of some famous journals, such as Transportation Research Part A / E, The Innovation, IEEE Trans on Cybernetics, and Computer-Aided Civil and Intrastructure Engineering. To date, he has secured research funding well above 12 million Euros from the Australian Research Council, Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova, Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), and European Union. He has published over 140 journal articles at top tier journals in the area of transportation. He has been an member in Academia European-The Academy of Europe since 2020.

Abstract:

With the accelerating electrification of public transit systems, the number of electric buses (EBs) in China has increased substantially. The operation management of EBs is of great significance for reducing the carbon emissions of the public transit system. Herein, we firstly introduce the development history of EBs in China and Western countries, and summarize the existing issues in the EB operation management in practice. Then a framework of EB operation management is proposed, and current studies are summarized from the perspectives of energy consumption estimation, vehicle scheduling, energy-efficient driving, resource allocation and benefit evaluation. We point out the techniques and methods down the road on EB operation management. Finally, the challenges are systematically summarized. We conclude that the future works that need to be focused on include: electric bus network planning, battery life estimation based on actual data, intelligent scheduling, and adoption of new power supply and charging modes.

Key words: electric bus, operation management, energy consumption estimation, vehicle scheduling, resource allocation, benefit evaluation

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