A Novel Application of the Travel Profile for the Electrical Bus in Electric Systems for Transportation

Using electrical public transportation systems is increasing dramatically. It is therefore highly significant to design these upcoming types of transport properly. The designing urban electric transportation system can be studied and modelled by mathematical equations. Besides, several methods have been proposed to plan these systems in recent years. Designing a travel profile is one of the most crucial parts of these methods. In this paper a travel profile for the fully electric buses named as Urbino-12 Electric, and three stations is designed and examined in Milan, Italy as a case study. Firstly, the used route data are obtained from the Google Maps’ tool. Next, the manufacturer’s catalogues and magazines are used to collect the vehicle data. Finally, computations were performed by Excel spreadsheets. The results show that the designed path in the proposed travel profile is covered at a commercial speed of 16.10 km/h, requiring 1.7 kWh of electrical energy that is regarded as frugal and profitable.