RMIT University researchers from the School of Engineering are collaborating with the iMOVE CRC and the Centre for New Energy Technologies (C4NET) on the project, “Spatio-temporal analysis of charging requirements for Victoria's Electric Bus Fleet”.
Receiving over half a million dollars in funding from RMIT, C4NET and the iMOVE CRC, this joint team of academia and industry have designed a project that will analyse the public transport (PT) of metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. This project will also involve building a spatio-temporal charging map of electric buses (EB) under different charging mechanisms and operation scenarios, for example, depot-based charging, and a combination of depot-based and en-route charging. This project is a response to one of the Victorian Government’s set targets for their transport buses electrification, that is, all new public transport buses must be zero emission by 2025.
This timely project is a result of initial research led by Senior Research Fellow, Dr Ali Moradi Amani who started with receiving small seed funding by the Information in Society Enabling Impact Platform (ISE EIP). Since then, Dr Moradi Amani has been able to expand and deploy his research on the Electrified public bus transport. Further leaps with this research were possible after Dr Moradi Amani received more funding from the EIPs via the Strategic Capability Deployment Fund in 2022 to publish a White Paper, ‘Integration of Electric Buses into the Power Grid: Challenges and Opportunities. This publication outlined five key messages including an effective governance structure and maximum clean energy.
A second White Paper, ‘Electrifying the Future of Urban Mobility’ was recently published to deliver further recommendations that include setting up a joint committee of electricity and transport sectors address future planning and issues and with bus electrification vehicles associated with public transport through Australia’s Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSPs), which is conducting the price review for the next five-year regulatory period.
Together with C4NET and the iMOVE CRC, Dr Moradi has since held two Conductor Series events in November 2022 and May 2023. Concluding results from these events include that both transport and electricity sectors need to take action, either separately or jointly, to ensure a smooth integration of the Battery Electric Buses (BEBs) into the transport system and the power grid.
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