The advantages of electric vehicles (EVs) include reduction of greenhouse gas and other emissions, energy security, and fuel economy. The societal benefits of large-scale adoption of EVs cannot be realized without adequate deployment of publicly accessible charging stations. We propose a two-stage stochastic programming model to determine the optimal network of charging stations for a community, considering uncertainties in the arrival and dwell times of vehicles, the state of charge of arriving vehicles’ batteries, drivers’ walking ranges and charging preferences, demand during weekdays and weekends, and the community’s rate of EV adoption. We conducted studies using the sample average approximation method, which asymptotically converges to an optimal solution for a two-stage stochastic problem. However, this method is computationally expensive for large-scale instances. Therefore, we also developed a heuristic to produce nearly optimal solutions quickly for our data instances. We conducted computational experiments using various publicly available data sources and evaluated the benefits of the solutions for a given community, both quantitatively and qualitatively.


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    Title :

    A Stochastic Programming Approach for Electric Vehicle Charging Network Design




    Publication date :

    2019-05-01


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    3023667 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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