Analysis to Facilitate Electric Public Transportation Demonstration Projects in the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC)

Battery electric busses (BEBs) are a promising emerging technology to replace the diesel buses currently the mainstay of public road transportation. Diesel buses contributed significantly to both climate-change related emissions, as well as local air quality issues. This project is examining a number of key issues associated with BEB adoption, in the context of a Canada-wide trial of BEBs. The high power demands of charging BEBs will be looked at in concert with energy storage on the chargers, to avoid high electricity costs and local electricity grid impacts. An evaluation of BEBs relative to ‘standard’ trolley buses with overhead power lines as used by TransLink in BC will be carried out. A quantification of the cap-and-trade system in Ontario with respect to BEB rollout will also be conducted.

Faculty Supervisor:

Curran Crawford;Ned Djilali

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Partner:

Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Transportation (excluding aerospace); Energy and Utilities; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

University of Victoria

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