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Locating Battery Charging Stations to Facilitate Almost Shortest Paths

Authors Esther M. Arkin, Paz Carmi, Matthew J. Katz, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Michael Segal

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  • approximation algorithms; geometric spanners; transportation networks

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Abstract

We study a facility location problem motivated by requirements pertaining to the distribution of charging stations for electric vehicles: Place a minimum number of battery charging stations at a subset of nodes of a network, so that battery-powered electric vehicles will be able to move between destinations using "t-spanning" routes, of lengths within a factor t > 1 of the length of a shortest path, while having sufficient charging stations along the way. We give constant-factor approximation algorithms for minimizing the number of charging stations, subject to the t-spanning constraint. We study two versions of the problem, one in which the stations are required to support a single ride (to a single destination), and one in which the stations are to support multiple rides through a sequence of destinations, where the destinations are revealed one at a time.

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Esther M. Arkin, Paz Carmi, Matthew J. Katz, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, and Michael Segal. Locating Battery Charging Stations to Facilitate Almost Shortest Paths. In 14th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 42, pp. 25-33, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2014.25

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Esther M. Arkin
Paz Carmi
Matthew J. Katz
Joseph S. B. Mitchell
Michael Segal

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