Location and Capacity of Charging Station with Random Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Charging Demands

This paper studies the problem of location and capacity for direct charging (DC) fast charging stations (CS). A new model with the random spatial-temporal distribution of charging demands is proposed to plan both the location and capacity for CSs and is modeled as a nonlinear optimization problem with a comprehensive cost function and multi-variable that can be solved by an improved genetic algorithm. Further, the trip chain of EV users is considered to describe the traveling characteristics based on the origin-destination (OD) matrix, and then the Voronoi diagram is used to divide the service area of each CS. The effectiveness of both the model and the improved genetic algorithm is demonstrated through the final simulation results and comparative analyses.