Strategic Hydrogen Refueling Station Locations with Scheduling and Routing Considerations of Individual Vehicles

Jee Eun Kang () and Will Recker ()
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Jee Eun Kang: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260
Will Recker: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697

Transportation Science, 2015, vol. 49, issue 4, 767-783

Abstract: A hydrogen refueling station siting model that considers scheduling and routing decisions of individual vehicles is presented. By coupling a location strategy of the set covering problem (SCP) and a routing and scheduling strategy of the household activity pattern problem, this problem falls into the category of location routing problems. It introduces a tour-based approach to refueling station siting, with tour-construction capability within the model. There are multiple decision makers in this problem: the public sector as the service provider and the collection of individual households that make their own routing decisions to perform a given set of out-of-home activities together with a visit to a refueling location. A solution method that does not require the full information of the coverage matrix is developed to reduce the computational burden. Compared to the point-based SCP the results indicate that the minimum infrastructure requirement may be overestimated when vehicle (refueling demand)-infrastructure (refueling supply) interactions with daily out-of-home activities are excluded.

Keywords: location routing problem; household activity pattern problem; set covering problem; location analysis; infrastructure investment; hydrogen refueling stations; routing and scheduling considerations; column generation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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