Growing concerns about environmental quality of cities are calling for sustainable road transportation technologies. EV （electric vehicles）, for public and private transport, can contribute significantly to the lowe...Growing concerns about environmental quality of cities are calling for sustainable road transportation technologies. EV （electric vehicles）, for public and private transport, can contribute significantly to the lowering of the current pollution levels. However, the EV use is currently facing several weaknesses among which are： limited driving range, high cost and overall limited efficiency. Electric vehicles management is a relatively recent problem; its purpose is to expedite the establishment of a costumer convenient, cost-effective, EV infrastructure. Inspire the relevance of the problem, a few small research communities in this field work on some of its aspects. In this work, some important issues of this problem are discussed and the contribution of combinatorial optimization tools for solving some challenging subproblems is studied.展开更多
文摘Growing concerns about environmental quality of cities are calling for sustainable road transportation technologies. EV （electric vehicles）, for public and private transport, can contribute significantly to the lowering of the current pollution levels. However, the EV use is currently facing several weaknesses among which are： limited driving range, high cost and overall limited efficiency. Electric vehicles management is a relatively recent problem; its purpose is to expedite the establishment of a costumer convenient, cost-effective, EV infrastructure. Inspire the relevance of the problem, a few small research communities in this field work on some of its aspects. In this work, some important issues of this problem are discussed and the contribution of combinatorial optimization tools for solving some challenging subproblems is studied.
