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https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27432/critical-issues-in-transportation-for-2024-and-beyond

Smart Garage Projects: Optimizing for Vehicle-to-Grid Operations

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) are becoming increasingly more popular. The key feature of these types of vehicles is an ability to connect vehicle battery to an electrical outlet. With such option, the flow of electricity can come in both ways: charge or discharge, where the former refers to “grid to vehicle (G2V)” and the latter refers to “vehicle to grid (V2G)” operations. In fact, the amount of the power stored in PHEVs fleets can be substantial and used for supporting ancillary services in electricity market. Hence, places with large amount of parked vehicles will have an opportunity to negotiate with aggregators the contracts to use the generating capacity of the parked fleet. The primary concern of this paper is the problem where to locate such facilities – smart garages. This study presents a model for determining optimal parking garage location and incentive structure. The model is composed of two models: the modified traffic assignment and the project’s total revenue model. The results from a simple numerical example show that the key parameters in developing smart garage projects are the battery capacity, PHEV penetration rate, and traffic congestion in the supporting transportation network.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: DVD
  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 15p
  • Monograph Title: TRB 89th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01154185
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 10-2263
  • Files: TRIS, TRB
  • Created Date: Apr 8 2010 8:22AM