Scheduling and location issues in transforming service fleet vehicles to electric vehicles

Pitu Mirchandani; Oli B.G.  Madsen; Jonathan Adler

Scheduling and location issues in transforming service fleet vehicles to electric vehicles

Pitu Mirchandani, Oli B.G. Madsen, Jonathan Adler

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Abstract

There is much reason to believe that fleets of service vehicles of many organizations will transform their vehicles that utilize alternative fuels which are more sustainable. The electric vehicle is a good candidate for this transformation, especially which “refuels” by exchanging its spent batteries with charged ones. This paper discusses the issues that must be addressed if a transit service were to use electric vehicles, principally the issues related to the limited driving range of each electric vehicle’s set of charged batteries and the possible detouring for battery exchanges. In particular, the paper addresses the optimization and analysis of infrastructure design alternatives dealing with (1) the number of battery-exchange stations, (2) their locations, (3) the recharging capacity and inventory management of batteries at each facility, and (4) routing and scheduling of the fleet. Several optimization models are developed and some preliminary results are given in the paper.

Original language	English
Publication date	2012
Number of pages	16
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	12th International Conference on Advanced Systems for Public Transport - The Ritz-Carlton, Santiago, Chile Duration: 23 Jul 2012 → 27 Jul 2012 Conference number: 12

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Conference	12th International Conference on Advanced Systems for Public Transport
Number	12
Location	The Ritz-Carlton
Country	Chile
City	Santiago
Period	23/07/2012 → 27/07/2012

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