Scheduling Model and Algorithm for Transportation and Vehicle Charging of Multiple Autonomous Electric Vehicles

Autonomous electric vehicle (AEV) services leverage advanced autonomous driving and electric vehicle technologies to provide innovative, driverless transportation solutions. The biggest challenge faced by AEVs is the limited number of charging stations and long charging times. A critical challenge i...

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Main Authors: Xiaoli Wang, Zhiyu Zhang, Mengmeng Jiang, Yifan Wang, Yuping Wang
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-01-01
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Zhiyu Zhang
Mengmeng Jiang
Yifan Wang
Yuping Wang
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Mengmeng Jiang
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Yuping Wang
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description Autonomous electric vehicle (AEV) services leverage advanced autonomous driving and electric vehicle technologies to provide innovative, driverless transportation solutions. The biggest challenge faced by AEVs is the limited number of charging stations and long charging times. A critical challenge is maximizing passenger travel satisfaction while reducing the AEV idle time. This involves coordinating passenger transport and charging tasks via leveraging the information from charging stations, passenger transport, and AEV data. There are four important contributions in this paper. Firstly, we introduce an integrated scheduling model that considers both passenger transport and charging tasks. Secondly, we propose a multi-level differentiated charging threshold strategy, which dynamically adjusts the charging threshold based on both AEV battery levels and the availability of charging stations, reducing competition among vehicles and minimizing waiting times. Thirdly, we develop a rapid strategy to optimize the selection of charging stations by combining geographic and deviation distance. Fourthly, we design a new evolutionary algorithm to solve the proposed model, in which a buffer space is introduced to promote diversity within the population. Finally, experimental results show that compared to the existing state-of-the-art scheduling algorithms, the proposed algorithm shortens the running time of scheduling algorithms by 6.72% and reduces the idle driving time of AEVs by 6.53%, which proves the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed model and algorithm.
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spelling doaj-art-9a2408299f8d486ca9378495fa5e9ae42025-01-10T13:18:23ZengMDPI AGMathematics2227-73902025-01-0113114510.3390/math13010145Scheduling Model and Algorithm for Transportation and Vehicle Charging of Multiple Autonomous Electric VehiclesXiaoli Wang0Zhiyu Zhang1Mengmeng Jiang2Yifan Wang3Yuping Wang4School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, ChinaAutonomous electric vehicle (AEV) services leverage advanced autonomous driving and electric vehicle technologies to provide innovative, driverless transportation solutions. The biggest challenge faced by AEVs is the limited number of charging stations and long charging times. A critical challenge is maximizing passenger travel satisfaction while reducing the AEV idle time. This involves coordinating passenger transport and charging tasks via leveraging the information from charging stations, passenger transport, and AEV data. There are four important contributions in this paper. Firstly, we introduce an integrated scheduling model that considers both passenger transport and charging tasks. Secondly, we propose a multi-level differentiated charging threshold strategy, which dynamically adjusts the charging threshold based on both AEV battery levels and the availability of charging stations, reducing competition among vehicles and minimizing waiting times. Thirdly, we develop a rapid strategy to optimize the selection of charging stations by combining geographic and deviation distance. Fourthly, we design a new evolutionary algorithm to solve the proposed model, in which a buffer space is introduced to promote diversity within the population. Finally, experimental results show that compared to the existing state-of-the-art scheduling algorithms, the proposed algorithm shortens the running time of scheduling algorithms by 6.72% and reduces the idle driving time of AEVs by 6.53%, which proves the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed model and algorithm.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/13/1/145autonomous drivingelectric vehiclesvehicle chargingtransportation schedulingevolutionary algorithm
spellingShingle Xiaoli Wang
Zhiyu Zhang
Mengmeng Jiang
Yifan Wang
Yuping Wang
Scheduling Model and Algorithm for Transportation and Vehicle Charging of Multiple Autonomous Electric Vehicles
Mathematics
autonomous driving
electric vehicles
vehicle charging
transportation scheduling
evolutionary algorithm
title Scheduling Model and Algorithm for Transportation and Vehicle Charging of Multiple Autonomous Electric Vehicles
title_full Scheduling Model and Algorithm for Transportation and Vehicle Charging of Multiple Autonomous Electric Vehicles
title_fullStr Scheduling Model and Algorithm for Transportation and Vehicle Charging of Multiple Autonomous Electric Vehicles
title_full_unstemmed Scheduling Model and Algorithm for Transportation and Vehicle Charging of Multiple Autonomous Electric Vehicles
title_short Scheduling Model and Algorithm for Transportation and Vehicle Charging of Multiple Autonomous Electric Vehicles
title_sort scheduling model and algorithm for transportation and vehicle charging of multiple autonomous electric vehicles
topic autonomous driving
electric vehicles
vehicle charging
transportation scheduling
evolutionary algorithm
url https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/13/1/145
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