Fleet-Wide Electrification Impacts Assessment for the Valley Transportation Authority
This report explores the long-term electrification opportunities for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). VTA is an independent special district that provides bus, light rail, and paratransit services in California’s Santa Clara County and surrounding counties. In 2019, VTA served an average of 114,600 riders per week resulting in an annual 26.9 million trips on buses and 8.3 million trips on rail. The authors examine the potential for transit bus electrification at VTA as well as the economic impacts of partial and complete electrification. The authors use an optimization model to determine the optimal electric bus selection and charging patterns to achieve the lowest cost solution at different levels of electrification. The cost minimization considers the bus capital cost, electricity cost, charger capital cost, bus maintenance cost, on-site photovoltaic panel cost, and stationary battery energy storage cost over the lifetime of the vehicles to determine the minimum system cost.
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Corporate Authors:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, CO United States 80401California Energy Commission
1516 9th Street
Sacramento, CA United States 95814 -
Authors:
- Eichman, Josh
- Kotz, Andrew
- Miller, Eric J
- Kelly, Ken
- Ficenec, Karen
- Publication Date: 2020-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 32p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Electric buses; Electric vehicle charging; Transit buses; Vehicle fleets
- Identifier Terms: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
- Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01841476
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: NREL/TP-5400-77547
- Contract Numbers: DE-AC36-08GO28308; FIA-17-01856
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 6 2022 10:26AM