Why taxi tracking trumps tracking passengers with apps in planning for the electrification of Africa’s paratransit

Rix, Arnold J.; Abraham, Chris Joseph; Booysen, M.J.

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.104943

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“…As a result, Abraham et al [9] found that electric minibus taxis in South Africa would have an energy consumption of approximately 0.93 kWh/km. (They also obtain similar values for studies conducted using their simulator in other African cities, see Booysen et al [10], Rix et al [11].) This led to a total energy consumption of 215 kWh/day.…”

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Aligned Simulation Models for Simulating Africa’s Electric Minibus Taxis

Abraham,

Rix,

Booysen

2023

WEVJ

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Planning for the eventual electrification of transport in sub-Saharan Africa requires accurate simulation of its unique transport systems. The few studies that attempt to model electric minibus taxis—vehicles extensively used in sub-Saharan Africa’s public transport systems—vary greatly in their results. This paper analyses, compares and corrects the only two existing studies that project energy consumption of electric minibus taxis in the region. One of the studies projected an energy consumption of 0.39 kWh/km, while the other projected 0.93 kWh/km. This paper carefully analyses the simulation tools and models and cumulatively applies corrections from the literature and scientific analyses. As a result, the discrepancy between the two simulation tools is eliminated for a given data input and a final energy consumption is estimated in the range of 0.49–0.52 kWh/km, depending on the input data.

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