Leveraging Electric Cross-Company Car Fleets through Cloud Service Chains: The Shared E-Fleet Architecture

Author

Ostermann, Jorn ; Renner, Thomas ; Koetter, Falko ; Hudert, Sebastian

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 April 2014

Firstpage

290

Lastpage

297

Abstract

In recent times technical developments in electric mobility have been rapid. With raising economic and ecological concerns about conventional vehicles, individuals and companies need to consider switching to electric vehicles. But due to limited range and charge times such vehicles are currently not sufficient. New mobility concepts are needed as well. In this work we present the Shared E-Fleet architecture used to enable sharing of car fleets between companies. Especially tailored to the needs of SMEs, the architecture is implemented as a cloud service chain, enabling configurability and interchangeability of services.

Keywords

automobiles; cloud computing; electric vehicles; traffic engineering computing; SME; car fleets; cloud service chains; conventional vehicles; ecological concerns; economic concerns; electric cross-company car fleets; electric mobility; electric vehicles; mobility concepts; service configurability; service interchangeability; shared e-fleet architecture; Clouds; Companies; Computer architecture; Electric vehicles; Schedules; Car fleet; car sharing; electromobility; service chains; smart grid;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Conference (SRII), 2014 Annual SRII

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SRII.2014.50

Filename

6879697