Designing a Dynamic Control Platform of Electric Bus Vehicles
The dynamic control of bus vehicles can reduce the emergencies during the running time of the buses, such as bunching. Electric bus vehicle is one category of new energy vehicles which are environmentally friendly transportation means. A dynamic control p
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School of Transportation, Southeast University, No. 2 Sipailou, Xuanwu District, Nanjing 210096, China [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Abstract. The dynamic control of bus vehicles can reduce the emergencies during the running time of the buses, such as bunching. Electric bus vehicle is one category of new energy vehicles which are environmentally friendly trans‐ portation means. A dynamic control platform of electric bus vehicles can make up the disadvantages of control strategies based on human experience. In this paper, we put forward such a platform to deal with the problem. The overall structure of the platform is proposed first, and four sub-systems are designed to implement the functions of data collection, storage, processing and releasing. The ways of data communication between inside and outside environment are illus‐ trated based on the description of different kinds of data. Moreover, we design control strategies of the platform which mainly combine holding and skipping, and an example is given to explain the implements of the control strategies and the data processing sub-system. Keywords: Electric bus vehicles · Dynamic control · Data communication
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Introduction
The development of public transit is an effective method to deal with problems of congestion, pollution and resources waste. Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS), which combines communication technologies with systems engineering, can make the public transit more appealing to passengers. Moreover, electric bus vehicles have been widely employed by the public transit systems in recent years to protect the environment. An efficient platform of electric bus vehicles is a support method for bus dynamic controlling and dispatching. It also can predict the travel time of bus vehicles and display the real-time information. Data collection and communication can be achieved by Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation Systems (VICS). Some researches about bus control platforms were concentrated on communication technologies. Gao [1] designed an Information Release System (IRS) based on the wire‐ less network. In this system, short-haul communication between vehicles and bus stations could be realized by ZigBee, while long-haul communication between different bus stations or between stations and the control center could be realized by Wi-Fi. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 X. Zeng et al. (eds.), International Symposium for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City (ITASC) 2017 Proceedings, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 62, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3575-3_4
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Zhang and Ran [2] proposed an analytical method of communication connectedness aimed for the dynamic dispatching, which mainly focused on the distances between vehicles and the communication mode. Sumcad et al. [3] invented a communication method which used the multimedia messaging service to realize the real-time commu‐ nication between vehicles and the control center. Meanwhile, other researchers focused
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