Minimizing Energy Use of Mixed-Fleet Public Transit for Fixed-Route Service

Contributions

• Introduced mathematical formulation to optimize the energy consumption of public transit agencies that operates mixed fleets of Electric (EV) and Internal Combustion Engine (ICEVs) Vehicles.
• Transformed the mathematical formulation to solve the problem using integer programming to obtain optimal solution.
• Introduced solution approach comprised of heuristics and meta-heuristics to solve larger problem instances in polynomial time.

Publications

The work is published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [AAAI-21].

Implementation

The implementation and sample data can be found in the following Code and Data.