Location and Expansion of Electric Bus Charging Stations Based on Gridded Affinity Propagation Clustering and a Sequential Expansion Rule
| Autor: | Jie Deng, Kangkang Zhu, Xiaolin Liu, Ligang Cui, Yongqiang Tao, Yajun Zhang |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Decision support system Electric bus Operations research Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Computer science Geography Planning and Development charging demand TJ807-830 Management Monitoring Policy and Law Investment (macroeconomics) TD194-195 sequential expansion Renewable energy sources Charging station Environmental sciences Software deployment charging stations Affinity propagation GE1-350 Cluster analysis AP clustering |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 16 Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 8957, p 8957 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13168957 |
| Popis: | With the escalating contradiction between the growing demand for electric buses and limited supporting resources of cities to deploy electric charging infrastructure, it is a great challenge for decision-makers to synthetically plan the location and decide on the expansion sequence of electric charging stations. In light of the location decisions of electric charging stations having long-term impacts on the deployment of electric buses and the layout of city traffic networks, a comprehensive framework for planning the locations and deciding on the expansion of electric bus charging stations should be developed simultaneously. In practice, construction or renovation of a new charging station is limited by various factors, such as land resources, capital investment, and power grid load. Thus, it is necessary to develop an evaluation structure that combines these factors to provide integrated decision support for the location of bus charging stations. Under this background, this paper develops a gridded affinity propagation (AP) clustering algorithm that combines the superiorities of the AP clustering algorithm and the map gridding rule to find the optimal candidate locations for electric bus charging stations by considering multiple impacting factors such as land cost, traffic conditions, and so on. Based on the location results of the candidate stations, the expansion sequence of these candidate stations is proposed. In particular, a sequential expansion rule for planning the charging stations is proposed that considers the development trends of the charging demand. To verify the performance of the gridded AP clustering and the effectiveness of the proposed sequential expansion rule, an empirical investigation of Guiyang City, the capital of Guizhou province in China, is conducted. The results of the empirical investigation demonstrate that the proposed framework that helps find optimal locations for electric bus charging stations and the expansion sequence of these locations are decided with less capital investment pressure. This research shows that the combination of gridded AP clustering and the proposed sequential expansion rule can systematically solve the problem of finding the optimal locations and deciding on the best expansion sequence for electric bus charging stations, which denotes that the proposed structure is pretty pragmatic and would benefit the government for long-term investment in electric bus station deployment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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