The Electric Riverboat Charging Station Location Problem

Nowadays, the electric mobility is mainly focused on urban areas. However, the use of Photovoltaic-assisted Charging Stations (PVCSs) can contribute to implement the electric mobility in rural areas disconnected from the national grid. Inspired by the new river operations with an Electric Boat (EB), the authors introduce a new location problem named the Electric Riverboat Charging Station Location Problem (ERCSLP). This problem estimates the necessary infrastructure for an EB to be able to perform a round trip. In this case, the authors decide the location of the PVCSs and the size of the EB battery aiming to minimize the sum of the PVCS and the EB battery costs. In this problem, the authors include the nonlinear behavior of the charging function and the variation of the solar radiation. For solving this problem, the authors propose a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) formulation. For testing this MILP formulation, the authors build a set of instances based on real river transport operations that have the potential to migrate to the electric mobility. In the authors' computational experiments, the authors show that their MILP formulation can find the optimal solution of the instances. Finally, the authors perform a sensitivity analysis and an economic viability analysis of the electric mobility in these operations.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6527924
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/5121625
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2020 Daniel Villa et al.
• Authors:
  • Villa, Daniel
  • Montoya, Alejandro
  • Herrera, Aura Maria
• Publication Date: 2020-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: Article ID 6527924
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 2020
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Boats; Electric vehicle charging; Linear programming; Location; Mixed integer programming; Rivers; Sensitivity analysis; Water transportation
• Subject Areas: Energy; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01759026
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 20 2020 4:10PM