Bus frequency optimization in a large-scale multi-modal transportation system:integrating 3D-MFD and dynamic traffic assignment

A properly designed public transport system is expected to improve traffic efficiency.A high-frequency bus service would decrease the waiting time for passengers,but the interaction between buses and cars might result in more serious congestion.On the other hand,a low-frequency bus service would increase the waiting time for passengers and would not reduce the use of private cars.It is important to strike a balance between high and low frequencies in order to minimize the total delays for all road users.It is critical to formulate the impacts of bus frequency on congestion dynamics and mode choices.However,as far as the authors know,most proposed bus frequency optimization formulations are based on static demand and the Bureau of Public Roads function,and do not properly consider the congestion dynamics and their impacts on mode choices.To fill this gap,this paper proposes a bi-level optimization model.A three-dimensional Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram based modeling approach is developed to capture the bi-modal congestion dynamics.A variational inequality model for the user equilibrium in mode choices is presented and solved using a double projection algorithm.A surrogate model-based algorithm is used to solve the bi-level programming problem.

Multi-Feature Fusion-Based Instantaneous Energy Consumption Estimation for Electric Buses

Dear Editor, This letter presents a multi-feature fusion-based method for estimating the instantaneous energy consumption of electric buses. More specifically, to improve the accuracy of instantaneous energy consumption estimation of electric buses, we propose a new energy consumption estimation method based on random forest regression(RFR) with multi-feature fusion. The multi-feature includes driving behavior, vehicle status, and external environment.

State of health estimation for lithium-ion batteries in real-world electric vehicles

The state of health(SOH) plays a significant role in the mileage and safety of an electric vehicle(EV). In recent years, many methods based on data-driven analysis and laboratory measurements have been developed for SOH estimation. However, most of these proposed methods cannot be applied to real-world EVs. Here, we present a method for SOH estimation based on realworld EV data. A battery-aging evaluation health index(HI) with a strong correlation to the SOH is retrieved from battery-aging data and then modified with thermal factors to depict the former SOH. Afterward, a local weighted linear-regression algorithm is used to qualitatively characterize the declining trend of the HI, which eliminates the local HI fluctuation caused by data noise.Subsequently, a series of features-of-interest(FOIs) is extracted according to the battery consistency, cell-voltage extrema, and cumulative mileage, and validated using the grey relational analysis. Finally, a battery-degradation model is built using the extreme gradient-boosting algorithm with the selected FOIs. The experimental results from real-world data indicate that the proposed method has high estimation accuracy and generalization, and the maximum error is around 2% for batteries in realworld EVs.