An increase in greenhouse gases emission from the transportation sector has led companies and the government to elevate and support the production of electric vehicles (EV). With recent developments in urbanization and e-commerce, transportation companies are replacing their conventional fleet with EVs to strengthen the efforts for sustainable and environment-friendly operations. However, deploying a fleet of EVs asks for efficient routing and recharging strategies to alleviate their limited range and mitigate the battery degradation rate. In this work, a fleet of electric vehicles is considered for transportation and logistic capabilities with limited battery capacity and scarce charging station availability. We introduce a min-max electric vehicle routing problem (MEVRP) where the maximum distance traveled by any EV is minimized while considering charging stations for recharging. We propose an efficient branch and cut framework and a three-phase hybrid heuristic algorithm that can efficiently solve a variety of instances. Extensive computational results and sensitivity analyses are performed to corroborate the efficiency of the proposed approach, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Finally a data-driven simulation implemented with the robot operating system (ROS) middleware are performed to corroborate the efficiency of the proposed approach, both quantitatively and qualitatively.


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    Title :

    Efficient algorithms for electric vehicles’ min-max routing problem




    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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