Electric Vehicle - Trip, Routing and Charging Simulator (EV-TRACS)

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The Electric Vehicle Trip, Routing and Charging Simulator, developed as part of Work Package 4 of the Moving IMPACT project.

The EV-TRACS trip animation showing the Accra scenario: agents moving across the city, with swap stations and taxi ranks marked, above the playback controls and legend.
The trip animation for the Accra scenario — a hundred agents working across the city, with swap stations and taxi ranks marked.
EV-TRACS

EV-TRACS is a suite of software tools for defining, running, visualising and analysing outputs of simulations of EV trips and charging or battery swaps, using open source mapping and routing libraries. It can be used for evaluating charging/swap station demand for the purpose of energy system and infrastructure sizing.

This site presents inputs, animations and outputs for defined scenarios. However, to build and run new simulations, it is necessary to download the code and run this locally in a Python environment. Video guides are provided to aid environment setup and installation of the downloaded code.

Moving IMPACT project Visit

Moving Impact is a collaboration between academic and industry partners in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and the UK led by Imperial College London that is exploring how mini-grids with EV charging infrastructure for 2- and 3-wheeler vehicles can be integrated to support community needs, improve energy system access and resilience, and deliver socio-economic benefits. The Moving Impact project is organised in six work packages.

Work Package 4

EV-TRACS has been developed as part of Work Package 4, which is led by the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Ghana and the University of Rwanda.

Work Package 4 considers policy, infrastructure and business models required to support the electification of 2- and 3- wheelers including motorcycle taxis (okadas / boda-bodas), 3-wheeler taxis (pragyas / tuk-tuks) and utility vehicles (e.g. aboboyaas). It also considers the specific opportunity for health centres deploying mini grids to act as a local energy hub supporting EV charging and other energy demands as well as as meeting their own energy needs.

In addition to supporting analysis for Work Package 4, EV-TRACS simulations will provide EV energy demand inputs to analyses conducted by other work packages.

Funding

This work was supported by UK Research and Innovation through the Ayrton Challenge Programme [Award reference UKRI314].

Scenario selection

Example scenarios for each of four model types. Pick one to see how the model works, with inputs, animations and outputs.

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Model overview

Step by step overview of how a scenario is built and run for each of four model types — with links to walkthrough videos for each step.

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