Techno-economic assessment of wireless charging systems for airport electric shuttle buses

Flightpath 2050, the European Commission's vision for aviation, requires that aviation industry achieves a 75 % reduction in CO2 emissions per passenger mile and airports become emission-free by 2050. Airport shuttle buses airfields are going to be electrified reduce ground emissions. Simultaneously, airfield movement space time schedules becoming more limited adopting stationary charging facilities vehicles. Therefore, dynamic wireless technology becomes promising help improve stability of electrification transport network. This paper proposes techno-economic assessment charging, wired conventional technologies electrifying airport buses. A bi-level planning optimisation approach combines multi-objective Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-III) mixed integer linear programming (MILP) algorithm handle large number decision variables constraints generated from investigated problem. The bus is simulated through multi-agent-based model (MABM) approach. Four case studies analysed illustrating feasibility electric results show enables carry smaller batteries while conducting same as tasks diesel/petrol vehicles bi-directional could mitigate impact on distribution