Electric vehicles in rural demand-responsive systems: requirements and challenges for an efficient service provision

摘要

This paper presents two electric-vehicle volunteer-based rural demand-responsive services; a Buerger(ruf)Auto ("Citizen-operated-car") and a Buergerbus ("Citizen-operated-bus"), outlining vehicle related aspects to be addressed in order to achieve a comparable operational efficiency as a service using internal combustion vehicles. Challenges are identified, namely technological limitations and the required physical characteristics of the vehicles. In addition, challenges include the need for vehicle components for gathering data directly from the car's electric motor to analyse the car's performance under different operational conditions. The paper mentions the issues explicitly and specifies what would be required from electrical vehicles to become an asset in the provision of rural demand-responsive systems.