Stochastic Electric Vehicle Network Considering Environmental Costs

Jie Ma, Lin Cheng, Dawei Li and Qiang Tu
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Jie Ma: School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Lin Cheng: School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Dawei Li: School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Qiang Tu: School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-16

Abstract: In recent years, many countries have published their timetables to promote electric vehicles. Many researches have focused on the benefits of electric vehicles. Compared with gas vehicles, electric vehicles are more suitable for modern cities, because they are considered to be environment-friendly by the public. Hence we pay attention to the environmental costs of electric vehicles. In this paper, an electric vehicle network is established. To analyze this electric vehicle network, we define environmental costs for the network and propose a stochastic user equilibrium model to describe drivers’ route choice behavior. An algorithm is proposed to solve this model. The model and the algorithm are illustrated through a numerical example. We test the calculation feasibility of the proposed model and the computational efficiency of the proposed algorithm via this numerical example. A comparative analysis is conducted to show the benefits of introducing electric vehicles into traffic networks. With the sensitivity analysis, we also reveal the relationship between people’s environmental awareness, the quantity of electric vehicles and the environmental costs of the overall traffic network.

Keywords: electric vehicle network; environmental costs; environmental awareness; travel behavior; sensitivity analysis; energy vehicles; sustainable transport; logit model; environmental impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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