Managing Overstaying Electric Vehicles in Park-and-Charge Facilities

Authors: Arpita Biswas, Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, Partha Dutta

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Our experimental validation, based on charging data from London, shows that an appropriate penalty can increase both utilization and revenue while significantly reducing overstaying. ... 5 Experimental Results For simulating the behavior of electric vehicles we study real-world data for the city of London
Researcher Affiliation Industry Arpita Biswas, Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, Partha Dutta Xerox Research Centre India {Arpita.Biswas, Ragavendran.Gopalakrishnan,Partha.Dutta}@xerox.com
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 UCB-PC 1: Input: A finite set A of penalty rates 2: TRi stores the total observed revenue for A[i] 3: Ki stores the number of days A[i] is imposed 4: for t 1 to |A| do 5: Choose penalty rate A[t] on tth day; Observe revenue earned r; 6: Set TRt r; Set Kt 1; 7: Find i = arg maxi 8: for t |A| + 1, |A| + 2, . . . do 9: Choose penalty rate A[i ] on tth day; Observe revenue earned r; 10: Update TRi TRi + r; Update Ki Ki + 1; 11: Update ˆ Ri 12: Find i = arg maxi for (t + 1)th day;
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide concrete access to source code for the methodology described.
Open Datasets Yes We study real-world data for the city of London, obtained from [www.gov.uk, 2013], which consists of 9961 charging events, including usage data of charge points and the duration of stay for EVs.
Dataset Splits No The paper mentions collecting and using data but does not specify dataset splits (e.g., percentages or counts for training, validation, or testing subsets) in the conventional machine learning sense for model training.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific hardware details (e.g., GPU/CPU models, memory amounts) used for running its experiments or simulations.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions 'Mathematica' for fitting distributions but does not provide a specific version number, nor does it list other software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup Yes We assume that the penalty threshold Cmax is a discrete random variable that takes values $4, $8, $10, $20 with probabilities 0.4, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1 respectively. We also assume a linear pricing function during charging, with rate c = $2 per hour. We simulate vehicles arriving to a parking area with 10 charging slots for a 6 hour time period, assuming that the arrivals follow a Poisson distribution with rate 10 per hour.