2426. Planning and Evaluation of Dynamic Inductive Infrastructures on Airport Aprons
Invited abstract in session TB-42: Sustainable supply chains III, stream Circular & Sustainable Supply Chains.
Tuesday, 10:30-12:00Room: Newlyn GR.02
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Niklas Pöch
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| Institute of Production Management, Leibniz University Hannover |
Abstract
With the growing importance of sustainability in the aviation sector due to climate change, electrifying ground vehicles on airport aprons is one way to reduce emissions. Dynamic inductive charging, which charges vehicles wirelessly as they move, is particularly suitable for apron vehicles as it eliminates the downtime associated with charging electric vehicles compared to conductive charging. The design of such an infrastructure is challenging as both technical and economic constraints need to be considered. We present a model to determine the design of the charging infrastructure while minimising the investment. In order to evaluate the charging infrastructure resulting from the solution of this strategic model, we have developed a model that depicts the operational processes of passenger buses on airport aprons. In this model, the routes of the buses are planned taking into account their battery. With a variable neighbourhood search, we evaluate different charging infrastructures of the strategic decision from the operational perspective and show e.g. the trade-off between the sizing of the charging infrastructure and the batteries of the buses.
Keywords
- OR in Sustainability
- Transportation
- Airline Applications
Status: accepted
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