Paper Info
Title
A Smart Parking Lot Management System for Scheduling the Recharging of Electric Vehicles
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a centralized electric vehicles (EVs) recharge scheduling system for parking lots using a realistic vehicular mobility/parking pattern focusing on individual parking lots. We consider two different types of EV based on their mobility/parking patterns: 1) regular EVs; and 2) irregular EVs. An extensive trace-based vehicular mobility model collected from the Canton of Zurich is used for the regular EVs, and a probabilistic pattern built on top of this trace is used for modeling the behavior of irregular EVs. To the extent of our knowledge, this is the first EV charging scheduling study in the literature that takes into account a realistic vehicular mobility pattern focusing on individual parking lots. We compare the performance of our proposed system with two well-known basic scheduling mechanisms, first come first serve and earliest deadline first, with regard to two objective functions: 1) maximizing the total parking lot revenue; and 2) maximizing the total number of EVs fulfilling their requirements. Comparison results show that our proposed system outperforms well-known basic scheduling mechanisms with regards to both objectives. Parking lots managing the recharging of a high number of EVs will greatly benefit from using such recharge scheduling systems in the context of smart cities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TSG.2015.2403287
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Keywords
Field
DocType
Electric vehicles (EVs), recharging, scheduling, smart grids
Smart grid,Parking lot,Scheduling (computing),Parking guidance and information,Transport engineering,Mobility model,Probabilistic logic,Engineering,Earliest deadline first scheduling,Management system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1949-3053
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.76
20
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mehmetkr Sukru Kuran1160.76
Aline Carneiro Viana2160.76
Luigi Iannone3160.76
Daniel Kofman4332.83
Grégory Mermoud5675.59
Jean-Philippe Vasseur618813.07