Modelling and simulation of an electric hybrid bus in city traffic

Many new vehicle propulsion concepts aim for lowering fuel consumption and emissions. Simulation is an efficient tool for design of such systems. An electric series hybrid city bus, driven on a specific route, is used as a case study for involving simulation in the design process. The first objective of this work is to verify models for transport task and driver. The second objective is to optimize the energy storage size with respect to fuel consumption, emissions and performance. The third objective is to evaluate the optimized hybrid bus. Comparisons are made with a conventional bus.