Westminster
Bottle Necks
- Cost of Electric Vehicles
- Range Anxiety
- Lack of public charging infrastructure
Chicken and Egg
Drivers unwilling to buy an EV until they see a sufficient level of infrastructure
Governments unwilling to invest in charge points until there is enough demand
What came first, the electric car or the charging post?
Dissertation Questions
- How many charge points do we need and where is the best place to put them?
- What type of chargers are most appropriate for Westminster?
- How can we quickly deploy are large amount of charging infrastructure?
Problems with Westminster
- Few residents have off-street parking
- Narrow pavements
- Multiple driver types:
- Fleet Vehicles
- Taxis
- Residents
- Commuters
- Old infrastructure
- Large amount of traffic from surrounding boroughs
Modelling
- Clustering charging data into characteristic charging behaviours (unsupervised DBSCAN).
- Location Allocation of charge points (p-median).
- Forecasting EV adoption and required infrastructure.
- Using predictive algorithms to determine the characteristics of a good charging location.
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