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Liwan Qi1,2, Bochun Wu3, Shoubo Li1,2
1Institute of New Energy, College of Physics and Electromechanical Engineering, Hexi University, Zhangye, 734000, China.
Abstract:
This paper focuses on charging allocation in a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications-enabled electric vehicle (EV) network with heterogeneous traffic flows, where manned EVs and EV platoons coexist, and each EV platoon may have a different size and travel speed. In such a network, hybrid traffic flows pose significant challenges since platoons with multiple EVs can easily cause severe station overloading and increase the total time cost for charging service, particularly when large platoons occur. To tackle this issue, a centralized approach is proposed to plan charging allocation and optimize the velocities of manned EVs and EV platoons with the assistance of V2I communications. Moreover, a heuristic solution is developed to reduce the computational complexity. The results confirm the efficiency of the proposed solutions in mitigating overloading and reducing the total time cost in EV networks with hybrid traffic flows.
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