Metropol-E: A System for Analyzing and Optimizing Urban Electric Vehicle Fleets

Abstract

Electric mobility becomes very important due to a lack of fossil fuels in the future. Hence, it is obvious to replace conventional vehicles with gasoline or diesel engines with Electric Vehicles (EVs). An important area of such replacements are vehicle fleets of companies or urban administrations. The goal of the research project metropol-E is to develop a concept for integrating Electric Mobility and renewable energy resources in the urban fleet of the City of Dortmund. The developed concept can be easily transferred to other municipalities. This work shortly introduces the metropol-E concept and concentrates on an Information System for Mobile Electric Mobility Services. On the one hand, this Information System is able to analyze the fleet movement by installing smart phones in the vehicles. On the other hand it connects the EV with the rest of the infrastructure services. With the help of the collected fleet movement data, the fleet and the charging infrastructure can be optimized. Exemplary results and mechanisms for such optimizations are also discussed in this work.