Multi-Objective Energy Management and Charging Strategy for Electric Bus Fleets in Cities Using Various ECO Strategies

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

abstract needs improvement

ECO should be defined? what is ECO? Economy?

Explain what ECO means

175 change the chapter to section

159 Reference to Assured- what it is (you explained in latter stage)

226 In eq  1, why cos a+sin a?

475 figure numbers are incorrect should be changed to 6 etc…

Author Response

Reviewer Comments:

• abstract needs improvement

Ans: I have rewritten parts of the abstract to ensure that it follows a single tense throughout. Furthermore, the abstract fully summarizes the entire article, including the results 

• ECO should be defined? what is ECO? Economy?
• Explain what ECO means

Ans: The ECO is defined in detail in section 4, "Eco Features", lines 899-904

• 175 change the chapter to section

Ans: Done

• 159 Reference to Assured- what it is (you explained in latter stage)

Ans: ASSURED is described in section 1, lines 156-160

• 226 In eq  1, why cos a+sin a?

Ans: m.g.Fr.cos(a) is used for the rolling resistance, while m.g.sin(a) is used for the grade resistance. explanation is given in section 2.1, lines 348-351

• 475 figure numbers are incorrect should be changed to 6 etc…

Ans: I did not understand this comment. The figure numbers looks good to me.

Reviewer 2 Report

• Please reduce the number of Information from web sites and increase the share of academic papers.
• Also in figure 1 the percentage share of each category should be given, otherwise it is too qualitative.
• Please use a blank space between number und unit "1 km" instead of 1km".
• Please add a list of acronomys
• Please transfer the Appendix to supplementary materials
• Less figures would be better to improve general readability. Please focus on really needed figure and sub-Panels. A textual Explanation of what can be seen and what is interesting in a Chart is often more helpful than to be "over-whelmed" by illustrations
• Please reduce the Level of Detail of the equations and Focus on the important ones, the full set might alsbo be transferred into the supplementary materials. 

Author Response

• Please reduce the number of Information from web sites and increase the share of academic papers.

Ans: I have done so, I have replaced a lot of the web information with actual articles from journals/conferences. Now they constitute more than two thirds of the references

• Also in figure 1 the percentage share of each category should be given, otherwise it is too qualitative.

Ans: Done. I made the break down with respect to mass of CO2 emission by sector

• Please use a blank space between number und unit "1 km" instead of 1km".

Ans: Done! 

• Please add a list of acronomys

Ans: Done. Section 0 was added and the abbreviations are given in ascending order

• Please transfer the Appendix to supplementary materials

Ans: Done

• Less figures would be better to improve general readability. Please focus on really needed figure and sub-Panels. A textual Explanation of what can be seen and what is interesting in a Chart is often more helpful than to be "over-whelmed" by illustrations

Ans: I have provided the minimal amount of simulation figures, just to provide a snapshot.  The remaining simulation data were provided as charts.

• Please reduce the Level of Detail of the equations and Focus on the important ones, the full set might alsbo be transferred into the supplementary materials.

Ans: Done! extensive re-write of section 2.1 and 2.2 to remove the equations to Supplementary materials.