Optimization of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Location for InterCity Transportation: Pre-Results and Discussion for Turkiye Case

Abstract

Over the years, electric vehicles (EVs) have gained a rapidly increasing share in land transportation due to technical advances in battery technology, longer driving range, environmental impacts of internal combustion engines on climate change and air and noise pollution. Along with this process, the technological advances of existing vehicles have also increased in parallel, and this has led to changes in consumers' preferences. In addition to the opportunities and advantages of EVs, there are also some disadvantages. The most notables among of these are low number of EV charging stations, which have a negative impact on urban traffic flow and EV drivers, and the inappropriate placement of EV charging stations and lack of resource optimization. Although the problem of low number and inappropriate placement of EV charging stations is focused as an urban problem, it is a bigger problem for EVs used in intercity transportation when the travel distance is compared. In this paper, the pre-results of a comprehensive analysis for optimization of electric vehicle charging infrastructure location for intercity transportation considering on Turkiye highway network map are discussed with respect to calculations by using an improved set covering model algorithm.