Infrastructure development for alternative fuel vehicles on a highway road system

Hwang, Seong Wook; Kweon, Sang Jin; Ventura, José A.

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2015.02.011

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“…(i) Our problem is an extension of Hwang et al [6] problem to consider potential deviation paths on directed transportation networks, such as highway network systems. is leads to consider (1) the mixed set of single-access and dual-access candidate sites to locate AF refueling stations, and (2) nonsymmetric round trips between ODs, where return paths are allowed to be different from original paths for refueling services in both directions.…”

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“…Since highway roads are physically partitioned by a barrier or an unpaved median, some built-in service facilities, called single-access stations, can only be accessed from one side of the road, while the rest, called dual-access stations, can be accessed from both sides of the road. Hwang et al [6,7] and Ventura et al [5] model this type of transportation systems as directed transportation networks.…”

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An Alternative Fuel Refueling Station Location Model considering Detour Traffic Flows on a Highway Road System

Hwang

Kweon

Ventura

2020

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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With the development of alternative fuel (AF) vehicle technologies, studies on finding the potential location of AF refueling stations in transportation networks have received considerable attention. Due to the strong limited driving range, AF vehicles for long-distance intercity trips may require multiple refueling stops at different locations on the way to their destination, which makes the AF refueling station location problem more challenging. In this paper, we consider that AF vehicles requiring multiple refueling stops at different locations during their long-distance intercity trips are capable of making detours from their preplanned paths and selecting return paths that may be different from original paths for their round trips whenever AF refueling stations are not available along the preplanned paths. These options mostly need to be considered when an AF refueling infrastructure is not fully developed on a highway system. To this end, we first propose an algorithm to generate alternative paths that may provide the multiple AF refueling stops between all origin/destination (OD) vertices. Then, a new mixed-integer programming model is proposed to locate AF refueling stations within a preselected set of candidate sites on a directed transportation network by maximizing the coverage of traffic flows along multiple paths. We first test our mathematical model with the proposed algorithm on a classical 25-vertex network with 25 candidate sites through various scenarios that consider a different number of paths for each OD pair, deviation factors, and limited driving ranges of vehicles. Then, we apply our proposed model to locate liquefied natural gas refueling stations in the state of Pennsylvania considering the construction budget. Our results show that the number of alternative paths and deviation distance available significantly affect the coverage of traffic flows at the stations as well as computational time.

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An Alternative Fuel Refueling Station Location Model considering Detour Traffic Flows on a Highway Road System

Hwang

Kweon

Ventura

2020

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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“…Recently, refueling station location models have been extended to more general forms considering specific applications, including a multiperiod planning formulation for the allocation of electric charging stations over time [25]; a twostage stochastic station location model, where the first stage locates permanent stations and the second locates portable stations [26]; a new model that considers multiple deviation paths between each of the O/D pairs when searching for station locations [27]; novel station location formulations for symmetric transportation networks that consider both single-and dual-access candidate sites [28,29]; a biobjective model to estimate the greenhouse gases emissions reduction as a function of the refueling infrastructure budget [10]; and models that consider capacitated stations and traffic deviations over multiple time periods [30], and traffic deviation considering route choice and demand uncertainty [31], under Journal of Advanced Transportation 5 the assumption that vehicles only require one refueling stop for intracity trips.…”

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A Continuous Deviation-Flow Location Problem for an Alternative-Fuel Refueling Station on a Tree-Like Transportation Network

Kweon

Hwang

Ventura

2017

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Due to the increasing popularity of alternative-fuel (AF) vehicles in the last two decades, several models and solution techniques have been recently published in the literature to solve AF refueling station location problems. These problems can be classified depending on the set of candidate sites: when a (finite) set of candidate sites is predetermined, the problem is called discrete; when stations can be located anywhere along the network, the problem is called continuous. Most researchers have focused on the discrete version of the problem, but solutions to the discrete version are suboptimal to its continuous counterpart. This study addresses the continuous version of the problem for an AF refueling station on a tree-type transportation network when a portion of drivers are willing to deviate from their preplanned simple paths to receive refueling service. A polynomial time solution approach is proposed to solve the problem. We first present a new algorithm that identifies all possible deviation options for each travel path. Then, an efficient algorithm is used to determine the set of optimal locations for the refueling station that maximizes the total traffic flow covered. A numerical example is solved to illustrate the proposed solution approach.

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“…This means that locations along highways and freeway in regional networks, particularly those where multiple highways and freeways intersect, are commonly-recommended sites at which to build stations. Other modeling approaches consider placing stations along high-volume commuting corridors that facilitate longer distance trips or intra-city travel (Sathaye and Kelley 2013;Hwang et al 2015;Ghamami et al 2016). Another set of models recommends that stations should be placed on highway corridors or busy roadways between activity clusters of likely early adopters (Ogden and Nicholas 2011;Brey et al 2014).…”

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“…In the case of a flow-based model, for example, this node may represent a location where high-volume roadways intersect (i.e., Kuby et al 2009). For models that operate on abstracted networks of a highway system, an assumption is either explicitly (Hwang et al 2015) or implicitly made (Lin et al 2008;MirHassani and Ebrazi 2012;Capar et al 2013) that drivers do not leave the highway network to reach a station, and simply refuel when they reach the abstracted node. Drivers, though, cannot generally refuel directly at the center of a major freeway intersection in an urban area, needing to leave limited-access highways and freeways to reach a suitable site that could host a refueling station on nearby local or arterial roads.…”

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Driver Use and Perceptions of Refueling Stations Near Freeways in a Developing Infrastructure for Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Kelley

2018

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There is growing agreement that refueling station location plans that aim to encourage public adoption of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) should include sites near freeways in urban areas. Little is known, though, about the refueling behavior of early AFV adopters in these locations, which can involve travel on complex and congested roadways. To address this, an intercept travel survey collected data from 158 drivers of compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles who refueled at CNG stations near freeways in greater Los Angeles, California. Results show that these stations met refueling demand from across the majority of the metropolitan area, and the distribution of local and distant refueling demand was consistent except for the downtown station. Drivers also considered these stations to be safe and accessible. Nearly half of drivers did not include another local stop in conjunction with their refueling trip that required leaving and returning to the freeway. These respondents refueled on longer trips with lower fuel tank levels, while refueling at the station that minimized deviation. Refueling downtown negatively influenced refueling in this manner. These findings should be considered when recommending station sites near freeways in future AFV infrastructure plans.

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Infrastructure development for alternative fuel vehicles on a highway road system

Cited by 27 publications

References 23 publications

An Alternative Fuel Refueling Station Location Model considering Detour Traffic Flows on a Highway Road System

An Alternative Fuel Refueling Station Location Model considering Detour Traffic Flows on a Highway Road System

A Continuous Deviation-Flow Location Problem for an Alternative-Fuel Refueling Station on a Tree-Like Transportation Network

Driver Use and Perceptions of Refueling Stations Near Freeways in a Developing Infrastructure for Alternative Fuel Vehicles

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