Spatio-Temporal Visualization of Interdependent Battery Bus Transit and Power Distribution Systems
This tool addresses the challenge of monitoring the complex interdependencies between electric bus transit and power distribution systems for system operators, which is an incremental step in managing grid load.
This paper presents a visualization tool to monitor the interdependent battery bus transit and power distribution systems. The tool successfully monitors components from both systems, such as bus locations, battery state of charge, electricity price, voltage, current, and power flow, to help determine a reliable and cost-effective spatio-temporal charging scheme for electric buses.
The high penetration of transportation electrification and its associated charging requirements magnify the interdependency of the transportation and power distribution systems. The emergent interdependency requires that system operators fully understand the status of both systems. To this end, a visualization tool is presented to illustrate the interdependency of battery bus transit and power distribution systems and the associated components. The tool aims at monitoring components from both systems, such as the locations of electric buses, the state of charge of batteries, the price of electricity, voltage, current, and active/reactive power flow. The results showcase the success of the visualization tool in monitoring the bus transit and power distribution components to determine a reliable cost-effective scheme for spatio-temporal charging of electric buses.