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The Electric Vehicle Shortest-Walk Problem With Battery Exchanges

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Electric vehicles (EV) have received much attention in the last few years. Still, they have neither been widely accepted by commuters nor by organizations with service fleets. It is predominately the lack of recharging infrastructure that is inhibiting a wide-scale adoption of EVs. The problem of using EVs is especially apparent in long trips, or inter-city trips. Range anxiety, when the driver is concerned that the vehicle will run out of charge before reaching the destination, is a major hindrance for the market penetration of EVs. To develop a recharging infrastructure it is important to route vehicles from origins to destinations with minimum detouring when battery recharging/exchange facilities are few and far between. This paper defines the EV shortest-walk problem to determine the route from a starting point to a destination with minimum detouring; this route may include cycles for detouring to recharge batteries. Two problem scenarios are studied: one is the problem of traveling from an origin to a destination to minimize the travel distance when any number of battery recharge/exchange stops may be made. The other is to travel from origin to destination when a maximum number of stops is specified. It is shown that both of these problems are polynomially solvable and solution algorithms are provided. This paper also presents another new problem of finding the route that minimizes the maximum anxiety induced by the route.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1234584 and by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration under the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the above organizations.

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  1. School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA

    Jonathan D. Adler, Guoliang Xue & Minjun Xia

  2. School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 878809, Tempe, AZ, 85287-8809, USA

    Pitu B. Mirchandani

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Adler, J.D., Mirchandani, P.B., Xue, G. et al. The Electric Vehicle Shortest-Walk Problem With Battery Exchanges. Netw Spat Econ 16, 155–173 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-013-9221-7

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