Siting public electric vehicle charging stations in Beijing using big-data informed travel patterns of the taxi fleet

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 33, Issue , 2014, Pages 39-46

  Cai, Hua ^a   Jia, Xiaoping ^b   Chiu, Anthony S F ^c   Hu, Xiaojun ^d   Xu, Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Charging stations; Electric vehicle; GPS data; Grid impact; Transportation emission; Travel pattern

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; CHARGING (BATTERIES); ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; TAXICABS;

CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURES; CHARGING STATION; GPS DATA; GRID IMPACTS; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; PUBLIC ELECTRIC VEHICLE; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; TRAVEL PATTERNS;

FLEET OPERATIONS;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; ELECTRIFICATION; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL DEMAND;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84907976890     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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