Journal
ELECTRONICS
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/electronics11060915
Keywords
catenary model; circuit modeling; electric mobility; motion-based model; trolleybus; urban transport
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This paper emphasizes the importance of studying and simulating a monitoring system for trolleybus infrastructures and proposes a new model that accurately simulates complex catenary systems. The research findings indicate the obsolescence of conventional design methods.
Trolleybus systems are resurfacing as a steppingstone to carbon-neutral urban transport. With an eye on smart city evolution, the study and simulation of a proper monitoring system for trolleybus infrastructures will be essential. This paper merges the authors' engineering knowledge and sources available in the literature on designing and modeling catenary-based electric traction networks and performs a critical review of them to lay the foundations for proposing possible optimal alternatives. A novel multi-vehicle motion-based model of the DC catenary system is then devised and simulated in Matlab-Simulink, which could prove useful in predicting possible technical obstacles arising from the next-future introduction of smart electric traction grids, inevitably featuring greater morphological intricacy. The modularity property characterizing the created model allows an accurate, detailed, and flexible simulation of sophisticated catenary systems. By means of graphical and numerical results illustrating the behavior of the main electrical line parameters, the presented approach demonstrates today's obsolescence of conventional design methods used so far. The trolleybus network of the city of Bologna was chosen as a case study.
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