Locating Battery Swapping Stations for a Smart e-Bus System

Joon Moon, Young Joo Kim, Taesu Cheong and Sang Hwa Song
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Joon Moon: School of Industrial Management Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
Young Joo Kim: Logistics System Research Team, Korea Railroad Research Institute, Uiwang 16105, Korea
Taesu Cheong: School of Industrial Management Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
Sang Hwa Song: Graduate School of Logistics, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-21

Abstract: With the growing interest and popularity of electric vehicles (EVs), the electrification of buses has been progressing recently. To achieve the seamless operation of electric buses (e-Buses) for public transportation, some bus stations should play the role of battery swapping station due to the limited travel range of e-Buses. In this study, we consider the problem of locating battery swapping stations for e-Buses on a passenger bus traffic network. For this purpose, we propose three integer programming models (set-covering-based model, flow-based model and path-based model) to model the problem of minimizing the number of stations needed. The models are applied and tested on the current bus routes in the Seoul metropolitan area of South Korea.

Keywords: electric vehicle; electric bus; battery swapping; infrastructure optimization; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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