| Title: |
Fleet scheduling for electric towing of aircraft under limited airport energy capacity |
| Authors: |
Zoutendijk, M.; Mitici, M.; Sub Algorithmic Data Analysis; Algorithmic Data Analysis |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Subject Terms: |
Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search; Charging strategy; Electric taxiing; Electricity capacity; Fleet scheduling; Civil and Structural Engineering; Modelling and Simulation; Renewable Energy; Sustainability and the Environment; Building and Construction; Fuel Technology; Energy Engineering and Power Technology; Pollution; Mechanical Engineering; General Energy; Management; Monitoring; Policy and Law; Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy; SDG 13 - Climate Action |
| Description: |
Taxiing aircraft using electric vehicles is seen as an effective solution to meet aviation targets of climate neutrality. However, making the transition to electric taxiing operations is expected to significantly increase the electricity demand at airports. In this paper we propose a mixed-integer linear program to schedule electric vehicles for aircraft towing and battery charging, while considering a limit for the supply of energy. The objective of the schedule is to maximize emissions savings. For computational tractability, we develop an Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search which makes use of multiple local search heuristics to identify scheduling solutions. For daily scheduling with a small fleet size, the developed heuristic achieves solutions with an average 4% gap to the best linear programming solution. The results show that charging the vehicles during daytime is essential to maximize saved emissions: removing charging opportunities for a few hours during the day reduces the performance by an average of 6.4%. In addition, it is found that fast charging leads to low vehicle downtime, unless the battery size exceeds 750kWh, when charging rates over 150kW become unnecessary. Overall, our model provides support for infrastructure planning of airports during the transition to aircraft electric taxiing. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text/plain |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
0360-5442 |
| Relation: |
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/438204 |
| Availability: |
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/438204 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.BFB42E2A |
| Database: |
BASE |