Towards Practical Large Scale Traffic Model of Electric Transportation

There is currently a transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to various kinds of green transportation, including battery electric vehicles. Multiple generations of such vehicles had many serious limitations, which leads to multiple concerns being raised about their viability and impact on driver behavior. Literature mostly studies the problem in small scale, or from the point of view of electric grid. In this paper we conduct a large scale simulation of driver behavior, using an agent model of traffic on a simplified map of Poland. We simulate several generations of existing and announced future electric vehicles, as well as different levels of charging infrastructure adopted, to look for the point where the driver behavior is not impacted at all, or only slightly impacted. The move to a larger scale requires adoption of some modification to the agent model, in order to decrease the computational requirements.