Facility location models for electric vehicle charging infrastructure

This thesis deals with the study of current charging infrastructure availability in highways, as well as proposing optimal allocations for new stations. First, a Machine Learning model is trained in order to estimate the actual range of an electric vehicle. This model will be constructed using heter...

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Autor: Valero Bover, Damià
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/105630
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/105630
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Electric vehicles
Vehicle elèctric
infraesctructura de recàrrega
estimació de l'autonomia
Electric vehicle
charging infrastructure
range estimation
facility location problem
Vehicles elèctrics
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Sumario:This thesis deals with the study of current charging infrastructure availability in highways, as well as proposing optimal allocations for new stations. First, a Machine Learning model is trained in order to estimate the actual range of an electric vehicle. This model will be constructed using heterogeneous data sources and variables that influence the total autonomy, such as speed, temperature, degradation or elevation, among others. Second, this model is used in combination with geospatial data regarding French highway and charging infrastructure locations, in order to propose a methodology for analyzing the availability level of charging stations in highways for electric vehicles. Finally, an optimization framework is implemented to decide the opening of several charging stations inside a highway, providing as possible locations rest and service areas already built, and considering current highway operational charging points.