The flow capturing location model and algorithm of electric vehicle charging stations

As a necessary supporting infrastructure in development of electric vehicles, electric vehicle charging stations can provide electric vehicles charging service. Their locations are reasonable or not directly related to the development of the electric vehicle industry and their service quality, efficiency, convenience, etc. On the basis of flow capturing location model, this paper treats intercepting the largest demand as the goal and uses particle swarm optimization algorithm to simulate the model to prove its effectiveness and practicability. The simulation result shows that the model and algorithm used in this paper can establish an optimal selection of location, and be able to provide some decisions to the real facility location.