Congestion-Aware Dynamic Optimal Traffic Power Flow in Coupled Transportation Power Systems

Electrification of vehicles is strengthening the interaction between power systems and transportation systems, formulating the coupled transportation power systems (CTPSs). A novel optimal traffic power flow (OTPF) problem is proposed to analyze the spatial and temporal congestion propagation on CTPSs, under congested roads, transmission lines, and charging stations. The traffic flow is depicted by the spatial and temporal distribution of electric vehicles (EVs) on roads and charging stations, connected by multilayer time-space networks (TSNs). This distribution is the solution to a mesoscale traffic assignment problem of EV fleets on TSNs, where the charging, discharging, routing, and origin–destination pairing can be optimized simultaneously. The power flow is captured by the optima of dynamic optimal power flow problems with security constraints. An extended alternating direction multiplier method algorithm with the convex-concave procedure is proposed to solve OTPFs. Results verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme for congestion management on CTPSs.