Web mining to inform locations of charging stations for electric vehicles
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2022-04
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The availability of charging stations is an important factor for promoting electric vehicles (EVs) as a carbon-friendly way of transportation. Hence, for city planners, the crucial question is where to place charging stations so that they reach a large utilization. Here, we hypothesize that the utilization of EV charging stations is driven by the proximity to points-of-interest (POIs), as EV owners have a certain limited willingness to walk between charging stations and POIs. To address our research question, we propose the use of web mining: we characterize the influence of different POIs from OpenStreetMap on the utilization of charging stations. For this, we present a tailored interpretable model that takes into account the full spatial distributions of both the POIs and the charging stations. This allows us then to estimate the distance and magnitude of the influence of different POI types. We evaluate our model with data from approx. 300 charging stations and 4,000 POIs in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Our model achieves a superior performance over state-of-the-art baselines and, on top of that, is able to offer an unmatched level of interpretability. To the best of our knowledge, no previous paper has quantified the POI influence on charging station utilization from real-world usage data by estimating the spatial proximity in which POIs are relevant. As such, our findings help city planners in identifying effective locations for charging stations.
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WWW '22: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022
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166 - 170
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Association for Computing Machinery
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The Web Conference 2022 Companion (WWW ’22 Companion)
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Spatial Analytics; Point-of-Interest; Web-Mined Location Data; Variational Inference; Charging Stations; Electric Vehicles
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09623 - Feuerriegel, Stefan (ehemalig) / Feuerriegel, Stefan (former)