Modeling of Municipal Electric Vehicle Fleets
SimPlan, a simulation and optimization service provider based in Germany, ran a project with the city of Hanau and Frankfurt University of Applied Science.They built models of municipal electric vehicle fleet operations. In the models, they considered two vehicle types: buses and garbage trucks (both conventional, battery- and fuel-cell-powered). SimPlan used simulation modeling because it can accurately forecast large-scale EV fleet tasks and assess their daily operation.