A Survey on Electric Buses—Energy Storage, Power Management, and Charging Scheduling

In recent years, aiming to reduce the metropolitan air pollution caused by fossil fuel-powered vehicles, the electrification of transportation, such as electric vehicles (EVs) and electric buses (EBs), has attracted great attention from the automobile industry, academia, and public transportation. EBs, driven by decarbonized electricity, can reduce the air pollution and noise level. Besides, they can also recover electricity from regenerative braking. Recent years have witnessed continuous works on the topics of EB energy storage, power management, and charging scheduling. In this review, the authors have comprehensively surveyed three primary parts: important components; existing research topics; and open issues of EBs. Specifically, they first introduce the important components of EBs, including energy storage systems, powertrains, interleaving elements and electric motors, and driving cycles. Then, the authors review the existing research topics of EBs, including the energy storage system sizing, power/energy management, range remedy methods, charging design/scheduling, and trial projects. At last, extending from existing literatures, they further propose the future research opportunities and ongoing challenges, such as extending EV related research to EBs, EB charging demand modeling, and EB impact on power systems.

• Record URL:
  • http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2019.2956807
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/41297384
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2021, IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Deng, Ruilong
  • Liu, Yuan
  • 0009-0005-4330-8923
  • Chen, Wenzhuo
  • Liang, Hao
• Publication Date: 2021-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 9-22
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Volume: 22
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 1524-9050
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6979

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electric batteries; Electric buses; Electric vehicle charging; Energy consumption; Energy storage systems; Literature reviews; Power trains; Scheduling
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01766294
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TLIB, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 28 2021 4:52PM