Electric Vehicle Route Planning (EVRP)
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2014 Speed Consumption Tradeoff Evrp

Speed-Consumption Tradeoff for Electric Vehicle Route Planning*

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Year2014
SourceDepartment of Informatics, KIT (opens in a new tab)
Main affiliationDepartment of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Affiliated countriesGermany, United Kingdom, USA

Main Contribution

  • Speeding up shortest path queries
  • Minimizing travel speed and energy consumption

Optimisation

  • Maximising travel speed
  • Minimising energy consuption

Variables

  • Limitation of energy supply
    • Battery condition
      • Usage
        • Increase of consumed energy per distance with velocity
      • Charging
        • Overcharging
        • Energy recuperation
  • Travel time
    • Dynamic velocity in time intervals

Methods

  • Pareto optimization for selecting optimal routes based on travel time and energy consumption
  • Dynamic speed within same road segment

Datasets

  • Road network data
    • PTV AG
  • Elevation data
    • FREE: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 4.1 from CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information
  • Energy consumption data
    • Passenger Car and Heavy Duty Emission Model (PHEM) - Graz University of Technology

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