EV charging habits and their impact on public charging infrastructure usage

IF 7.3 1区工程技术 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI:10.1016/j.trd.2025.104730

Simon Weekx , Ona Van den bergh , Gil Tal , Lieselot Vanhaverbeke

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Abstract

Many cities worldwide are developing public Charging Infrastructure (CI) to promote Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption. A critical factor in these efforts is understanding the charging patterns of EV drivers, which is often neglected by existing studies. We use a large-scale dataset of charging events in Brussels to simulate the effect of different charging patterns on 3 KPIs: network utilization, energy consumption, and user convenience (i.e. failed connection attempts). Our findings suggest that EV drivers with habitual charging patterns are important contributors to the overall energy consumption and utilization rate; however, they also cause more charging inconvenience. Moreover, charging inconvenience is found to be spatially concentrated in certain areas, and unequally distributed over different user groups. Policy makers can use these results either to adapt the roll-out of public CI to the observed charging behavior, or to actively steer charging behavior to achieve a more efficient use of the existing CI.

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电动汽车充电习惯及其对公共充电基础设施使用的影响

全球许多城市都在建设公共充电基础设施（CI），以促进电动汽车（EV）的普及。这些努力的一个关键因素是了解电动汽车司机的充电模式，这一点经常被现有的研究所忽视。我们使用布鲁塞尔收费事件的大规模数据集来模拟不同收费模式对3个kpi的影响：网络利用率、能源消耗和用户便利性（即失败的连接尝试）。研究结果表明，习惯充电模式对电动汽车整体能耗和利用率有重要影响；然而，它们也造成了更多的充电不便。充电不便在空间上集中于特定区域，在不同用户群体间分布不均匀。政策制定者可以使用这些结果来调整公共CI的推出，以适应观察到的收费行为，或者主动引导收费行为，以实现对现有CI的更有效利用。

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Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment 工程技术-运输科技

CiteScore

14.40

自引率

9.20%

发文量

314

审稿时长

39 days

期刊介绍： Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment focuses on original research exploring the environmental impacts of transportation, policy responses to these impacts, and their implications for transportation system design, planning, and management. The journal comprehensively covers the interaction between transportation and the environment, ranging from local effects on specific geographical areas to global implications such as natural resource depletion and atmospheric pollution. We welcome research papers across all transportation modes, including maritime, air, and land transportation, assessing their environmental impacts broadly. Papers addressing both mobile aspects and transportation infrastructure are considered. The journal prioritizes empirical findings and policy responses of regulatory, planning, technical, or fiscal nature. Articles are policy-driven, accessible, and applicable to readers from diverse disciplines, emphasizing relevance and practicality. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions and welcome contributions from economically developing and advanced countries alike, reflecting our international orientation.