Abstract:

Electric vehicles (EVs) are expected to be widely adopted in modern cities as personal, commercial, and public fleets in the future. The popularity of EVs would have a significant impact on urban cities' sustainable and economic growth. EVs have limited range, however, relative to conventional fossil fuel vehicles, and ultimately need frequent recharging. Thus, the provisioning of assured service quality is necessary for realizing E-mobility solution using EVs. The design of an efficient charging management system for EVs has become an emerging research problem in future connected vehicles applications, given their mobility uncertainties. Major technical challenges involve decision-making intelligence for the selection of Charging Stations (CSs), as well as the corresponding communication infrastructure for information dissemination between the power grid and mobile EVs. This chapter presents, from a transport planning perspective, a range of information-enabling technologies that have been used for EV charging.