Control Strategies for an Electric Hybrid Bus Adapted to a Specific Route

If hybrid vehicles are to be judged in a fair way, the whole system has to be taken into consideration. This includes not only the specific vehicle with its software, but also the driver and the environment in which the vehicle is driven. Simulation is one way to do this. City buses give an extra potential for hybrid systems, if the software takes the specific route and time table into consideration. Increased computer power and newly developed and improved simulation tools make it more and more efficient to simulate relevant, mathematical models over such long transport tasks that it covers a whole bus route. The problem area can be divided into three different subareas: