Title: Optimal Installation for Electric Vehicle Wireless Charging Lanes,
Abstract: Range anxiety, the persistent worry about not having enough battery power to
complete a trip, remains one of the major obstacles to widespread
electric-vehicle adoption. As cities look to attract more users to adopt
electric vehicles, the emergence of wireless in-motion car charging technology
presents itself as a solution to range anxiety. For a limited budget, cities
could face the decision problem of where to install these wireless charging
units. With a heavy price tag, an installation without a careful study can lead
to inefficient use of limited resources. In this work, we model the
installation of wireless charging units as an integer programming problem. We
use our basic formulation as a building block for different realistic
scenarios, carry out experiments using real geospatial data, and compare our
results to different heuristics.