Abstract

Depleting fossil fuel reserves will increase the use of electric vehicles. The need to recharge electric vehicles has addressed this issue. In this regard, finding an optimal charging station design is critical. This study introduces a multi-objective battery electric vehicle charging station location problem (BEVCP). As one of the main novelties of this study, we divided the city into two zones, namely inside and outside the central business district (CBD) zone, and designed the charging station network taking these zones into consideration. Furthermore, with regard to the CBD, desired upper and lower bounds of distance (miles) between charging stations are also considered. The proposed two objectives minimize the capital cost of establishing a station and the distance between two stations. In this way, reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is considered as well. The obtained results confirmed the efficiency of the proposed model.