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Title:

Evaluating Location Alternatives for Electric Vehicle Re-charging Infrastructure Using a Distance Constrained Equilibrium Assignment Model

Accession Number:

01514799

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) represent a rapidly evolving technology which relies on electric power rather than petrol. A new such energy dependence requires the development of an infrastructure system for en-route re-charging options, be that fast charging stations or battery swap stations. Optimally locating re-charging infrastructure requires knowledge of PEVs’ spatiotemporal travel patterns, which are inherently dependent on PEV users’ travel behaviour. Furthermore, a limited battery capacity results in a distance constraint for PEV drivers, inevitably impacting their travel and activity patterns, and thus, the performance of the transport system. To properly evaluate re-charging infrastructure design decisions the constraints on PEV users’ route choice must be incorporated into transport planning models. Using a novel distance constrained user-equilibrium-based assignment model which allows re-charging requirements to be incorporated into the traditional traffic assignment problem, the authors evaluate the impact of PEV traveller’s en route re-charging needs on the network system performance under various re-charging station location options. The authors quantify the potential system performance improvement achievable by optimally locating re-charging stations, and also identify key scenarios in which infrastructure planning decisions result in sub-optimal network performance. The analysis motivates the use of modified traffic assignment models when designing re-charging infrastructure systems within transport networks with PEVs.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC80 Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-1840

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Chen, Nan
Gardner, Lauren
Duell, Melissa
Waller, S Travis

Pagination:

22p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-1840

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 2:40PM