The Impact of the Roads' Slope Coefficient in a Vehicular Energy Model

The improving of Electrical Mobility (EM) technologies is promoting the birth of novel mobility scenarios where Electrical Vehicles (EVs) are starting to be a remarkable share of the vehicle moving along the streets. New mobility models should take into account several environments parameters to better fit real conditions. In this work, we focus our attention to the slope coefficient of the roads by parsing altitude data from on-line Map services. Achieved results bring up interesting output. They demonstrate the importance of the road slope in case of modeling energy consumption. To achieve more realistic simulations we propose a novel model which takes into account real EV engines behavior. Moreover, communication issues are also been considered in the simulator by building ad-hoc modules for simulating communication standards and protocols. In this work, an all-in-one simulation framework is proposed. This framework can be used out of the box but can be also easily extended thanks to the code organization in modules.