Numerical Study on Planning Inductive Charging Infrastructures for Electric Service Vehicles on Airport Aprons

Dynamic inductive charging is a contact-free technology to provide electric vehicles with energy while they are in motion, thus eliminating the need conductively charge batteries of those and, hence, required vehicle downtimes. Airport aprons commercial airports potential systems employ this reduce aviation-induced CO2 emissions. To date, many operating on airport equipped internal combustion engines burning diesel fuel, hence contributing emissions and global warming problem. However, exhibit specific features that might make dynamic technologies particularly interesting. It turns out using leads some strategic infrastructure design questions for about spatial allocation system components. In paper, we experimentally analyze these explore under which conditions can expect resulting mathematical optimization problems be relatively hard or easy solved, respectively, as well achievable solution quality. end, report numerical results large-scale study reflecting different types structures terminals found at real-world airports.