Essential Functionalities of ERA-NET Electric Mobility Europe PLATON Project

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• urban buses
• conversion
• electric bus fleet
• project platon
• functionalities