2020/09/22 by Tao Wang, Wang, Tao, Ying Yang +5
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure #FOS: Electrical engineering #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Transportation and Mobility Innovations #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2009.10543
openalex publication_date 2020/09/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We illustrate that the electrification of our transport system might impose unnecessary extra congestion and delay for daily commuting passengers. By modelling travel behaviors of these passengers, it is found that more of them tend to depart at a narrower peak-hour time window. The occurrence of this shift is mainly caused by (1) the energy consumption of electric vehicles (EVs) is much lower than that of traditional vehicles and (2) the energy consumption of EVs is less sensitive to congestion than that of traditional vehicles. We further examine the role of congestion toll in minimizing the extra congestion and delay.