A Vehicular Traffic Simulator Model for Evaluating Electrical Vehicles (EVs) Performances in a Configurable Mobility Scenario

摘要

Nowadays Electrical Mobility (EM) is one of the most interesting topics in vehicular environment. With the increasing adoption of EV an appropriate management of hybrid traffic could be a key factor to drastically reduce environmental pollution and to enhance road safety. EVs were slowly becoming a reality in everyday life. A novel mobility model which takes into account their characteristics become necessary for describing the key factors that influence EM and its performances. Moreover, it is important to build a real world close scenario by using a novel ad-hoc simulator that implements modules which are able to capture EV behaviors. Therefore, remarkable contributions to the mobility model introduced in the simulator are: a slope factor that influence users' speed and behavior as well as vehicle consumption, a Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) emulation for EV to better simulate vehicles' battery life and integrated module for communication issues which will be able to allow Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) protocol integration. In this way, a deep analysis on different vehicles distribution ratio has been done as well as their impact on the overall scenario. Results are shown in the dedicated section.