ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONALITIES OF ERA-NET ELECTRIC MOBILITY EUROPE PLATON PROJECT

ALGIN Vladimir B., D. Sc. in Eng., Prof., Deputy Director General for Research, Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the NAS of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CZOGALLA Olaf, Senior Engineer – Intelligent Transport Systems, Institut f. Automation und Kommunikation, Magdeburg, Germany, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

KOVALYOV Mikhail Ya., Corresponding Member of NAS of Belarus, Deputy Director General for Research, United Institute of Informatics Problems of the NAS of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

KRAWIEC Krzysztof, Ph. D., Assistant Professor, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CHISTOV Sergey, Deputy Chief Designer, Scientific and Technical Production Center “Belkommunmash”, Minsk, Republic of Belarus, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The paper is an extension of the same name plenary report at the conference “Innovations in mechanical engineering-2018”, which has been held in Minsk, Belarus, on September 18–19, 2018. Essential functionalities of the project PLATON (Planning Process and Tool for Step-by-Step Conversion of the Conventional or Mixed Bus Fleet to a 100% Electric Bus Fleet) are presented. Paper covers the following topics: 1) Introduction with a  brief overview of approaches to assessing the efficiency of urban transport, 2) General information on PLATON project, 3) Motivations and hindering arguments for bus fleet transition, 4) Strategic backgrounds from the public transport operators point of  view, 5) Dependences between entities of various domains in the process of electric bus deployment, 6)   Basic stages in creating electric buses fleet and initial data problem, 7) Modelling: using different kind of modelling, 8) Optimization problem and 9) Conclusions. The project PLATON has received funding from the ERA-NET COFUND Electric Mobility Europe within the Horizon 2020 program. Project runtime is 01.2018-06.2020.

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