Abstract Electric vehicle charging demand models, with charging records as input, will inherently be biased toward the supply of available chargers. These models often fail to account for demand lost from occupied charging stations and competitors. The lost demand suggests that the actual demand is likely higher than the charging records reflect, i.e., the true demand is latent (unobserved), and the observations are censored. As a result, machine learning models that rely on these observed records for forecasting charging demand may be limited in their application in future infrastructure expansion and supply management, as they do not estimate the true demand for charging. We propose using censorship-aware models to model charging demand to address this limitation. These models incorporate censorship in their loss functions and learn the true latent demand distribution from observed charging records. We study how occupied charging stations and competing services censor demand using GPS trajectories from cars in Copenhagen, Denmark. We find that censorship occurs up to 61% of the time in some areas of the city. We use the observed charging demand from our study to estimate the true demand and find that censorship-aware models provide better prediction and uncertainty estimation of actual demand than censorship-unaware models. We suggest that future charging models based on charging records should account for censoring to expand the application areas of machine learning models in supply management and infrastructure expansion.
Highlights Observed EV charging demand is limited to the supply of charging stations. Censored Regression models proposed to model the true demand. Graph neural networks are extended to model the true latent demand. Experiments on how demand is censored in Copenhagen, Denmark. Censorship aware models offer better modelling the latent demand for charging.
Mind the gap: Modelling difference between censored and uncensored electric vehicle charging demand
2023-05-26
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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