Electric Buses

19 - 27 January 2021

Organisers

Africa Asia-Pacific Europe India Bus Clean Bus

With more and more metropolitan areas targeting zero-emission environments, an increasing number of cities, transport authorities and operators are considering a fully-electric solution for their urban bus network.

In this context, the UITP Academy designed this online training programme on Electric Buses offering a comprehensive overview of the electric solution for urban bus networks: from the setting of a long term city strategy in terms of energy transition to the definition of a charging strategy and the choice of technology and all the way to the procurement and the implementation and operation of the system.

Reach your objectives

Introduce the electric solution, the different types of technologies and compare their benefits and drawbacks
Understand the products on offer and the mainstream technology options available, competition and maturity level of the suppliers
Understand how to develop an operational and charging strategy
Learn from experience on how to plan, implement and run electric bus lines successfully
Understand the implications for operations and infrastructure
Learn from successful major electric bus project implementations including electric bus system procurement
Understand how technology and data management can help optimising your operations and charging

Target audience

Project managers, engineers and other professionals eager to learn more about the technology, the implementation and the running of electric buses
Staff from public transport operators or authorities planning to extend a fully-electric solution to the core part of the urban bus network
Staff from the bus industry worldwide involved in the market uptake of electric buses
Professionals interested in obtaining a wider and international perspective on electric buses and eager to learn more from international best practice

A good level of English is a compulsory requirement to attend the training

Methodology

Get inspired by our trainers, understand the main aspects of electric buses and learn from successful international best practice
Participate to interactive online sessions with introduction by course leaders, presentation by the trainer and open discussion with participants
Challenge your practical knowledge on the technology, the implementation and the running of electric buses
Address the topic from an international perspective, enriched by different cultural approaches and points of views

Why choose an online course

Interact with public transport professionals from across the world
Be time efficient, with 6 sessions over a 2 weeks timespan
Flexibility to join the sessions from any location in the world, at work or at home

Programme

Case Study: Lessons learnt from operating and maintaining an electric bus fleet

What is an electric bus and how can electric buses contribute to making public transport network competitive and our cities sustainable? How can it affect the institutional organisation and governance in a city? What are the financial constraints and benefits of implementing an electric bus line? What risks exist and what can be the impact on costs? New developments in Trolleybus.

This session includes:

The policy context and city strategies for the introduction of electric buses
Legislation/policy aspect: how to incentivize e-buses deployment with a focus on the EU Clean Vehicles Directive mandatory country targets and other international examples
Current state of the global electric bus market, the products on offer
Main challenges for deployment: upfront costs, operational requirements, procurement, interoperability, cooperation with energy sector.
Planification of charging infrastructure, a quite critical part when planning to deploy e-buses
The system approach and steps of an implementation and deployment process

This session includes:

Overview of trolleybuses in many worldwide cities
New developments with battery modes in Trolleybus and demonstrations have contributed to this success and in recent years, new technological advances, in-motion charging

This session will look into new technologies and auxiliaries used to run electric busses, whether it be the installation and running of charging infrastructure, the impact on information technology systems, driver assistance and standardisation of the connection or the technical evolution of the battery. This session includes:

An insight into vehicles (battery, plus-in hybrid, trolley, fuel cell) and infrastructure (overnight and opportunity charging, types of pantographs, in-motion charging)
Driveline – Batteries – auxiliary components & HVAC – technology & maintenance – infrastructure costs
Updated electric bus product overview: latest models and trends
Figures and market numbers

From line management and maintenance to training of personnel, driving and safety, the operations of a fully electric bus line differs substantially from that of a traditional bus line. The importance of studying the initial operational needs are key to successfully introducing electric buses, as much as the design and dimensioning of the line according to the energy supply and usage. This session includes:

Context and operational constraints: operational needs, charging scenarios, charging strategies.
System specification: charging infrastructure, vehicle and battery.

Facility modifications:

Requirements and performance: standardization, interoperability.
Impact on operations: LCC, Maintenance, data, autonomy and performance.
Contractual framework: system approach, share of risks, commitment.
International experience in operating electric buses.

Energy consumption, charging and overall performance need be monitored and managed in the most optimal way to ensure efficient and seamless electric bus operations. How to intelligently use data to achieve such performance will be presented and discussed in this session. Continuous improvement by integration of smart data (feedback loop) for the optimisation in operational simulations is thereby the key.

To successfully implement and run fully electric line, it is essential to make the tendering process evolve from a simple vehicle purchase to the tendering of a comprehensive electric system, taking into account life cycle costs, charging infrastructure, batteries, economic models, business models, risk allocation, financing, leasing and renting, etc. This session includes:

Tendering electric bus operations
Financial constraints
Launching a request for quotation: deliverables – specifications – valuing tender criteria
The UITP Tender Structure Document and SORT

Both UITP Tender Structure Document (100 pages, 6 annexes) and SORT (E-SORT) suite are available in MyLibrary free of charge for UITP members. The UITP Tender Structure Document is a joint initiative from the Bus Committee, the PTA Committee and the Industry Committee. With more than 10 years in the market it has become the standard reference. It provides you with a recommended framework on how to organise the tender documentation in a lean and standardised way. It contains further several recommendations on tender items and specifications. TSD has been recently updated (2020) with a full chapter on E-mobility, an annex on “Environmental calculation” and one on “thermal comfort” requirements (standardised way for tender books). The SORT project (‘Standardised On-Road Test cycles’), an initiative of the UITP Bus Committee, first aimed at providing the bus sector with a standardised means of comparing the energy consumption of different buses when procuring buses at tender stage. To meet the changing needs of the sector, SORT has recently expanded its scope to include electric buses. The newly branded ‘E-SORT’ has the aim to measure, in an accurate and reproducible way, the traction energy consumption and to obtain information on the Zero Emissions range of a bus.

Trainers

Eric Nöh

Head of Sales Public Transport

PSI Transcom GmbH, Germany

Noshin Omar

CEO and Founder

Avesta Battery & Energy Engineering, Belgium

Maria WEDENBY AHLBERG

Head of Public Affairs

Volvo Bus Corporation, Sweden

Bart KRAAIJVANGER

Manager Zero Emission Programme

Transdev Group, Netherlands

Hans BEKKERS

Business Development Manager Public Transport

VDL Bus & Coach, Netherlands

Arno KERKHOF

Head of Bus Transport Unit

Knowledge & Innovation

UITP Team

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Yussup KHASSIEV

Senior Manager – Knowledge & Innovation

Knowledge & Innovation, Belgium

UITP Team

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Sunita KELECOM

Officer – Events Management Unit

Events & Academy Services

UITP Team

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Reach your objectives

Target audience

Methodology

Why choose an online course

Programme

Session 2: Case study on electrification

Welcome & Introduction to the course

Session 1A: Introduction: An electric solution for urban bus networks

Session 1B: Overview of Trolleybus

Session 3: Electric bus technology, charging infrastructure & product overview

Session 4: Batteries for electric buses

Session 5a: Planning and developing an electric bus operation

Session 5b: Smart charging and the power of data in electric bus operations

Session 6: The procurement and commissioning process

Trainers

Eric Nöh

Noshin Omar

Maria WEDENBY AHLBERG

Bart KRAAIJVANGER

Hans BEKKERS

Arno KERKHOF

Yussup KHASSIEV

Contact Us

Sunita KELECOM

Organiser