Congestion patterns of electric vehicles with limited battery capacity

The path choice behavior of battery electric vehicle (BEV) drivers is influenced by the lack of public charging stations, limited battery capacity, range anxiety and long battery charging time. This paper investigates the congestion/flow pattern captured by stochastic user equilibrium (SUE) traffic assignment problem in transportation networks with BEVs, where the BEV paths are restricted by their battery capacities. The BEV energy consumption is assumed to be a linear function of path length and path travel time, which addresses both path distance limit problem and road congestion effect. A mathematical programming model is proposed for the path-based SUE traffic assignment where the path cost is the sum of the corresponding link costs and a path specific out-of-energy penalty. The authors then apply the convergent Lagrangian dual method to transform the original problem into a concave maximization problem and develop a customized gradient projection algorithm to solve it. A column generation procedure is incorporated to generate the path set. Finally, two numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed model and the solution algorithm.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194354
• Record URL:
  • http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194354
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2018 Wentao Jing et al.
• Authors:
  • Jing, Wentao
  • Ramezani, Mohsen
  • An, Kun
  • Kim, Inhi
• Publication Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: e0194354
• Serial:
  • PLoS One
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Public Library of Science
  • EISSN: 1932-6203
  • Serial URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Batteries by chemical elements; Electric vehicles; Energy consumption; Programming (Mathematics); Routes; Traffic congestion; Vehicle range
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01677009
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 30 2018 8:34AM