Symbol

Description

Type

Value

Units

xn,i

The amount of charging a station i can supply

Decision variables

Scaled population

[xlat, xlong]T

Location of charging station i

Decision variables

Coordinates

N

Total number of charging stations (see Appendix A)

Parameter

1, 2, ∙∙∙, N

Stations

wij

Willingness to travel from center j to station i

Distribution

Pj

Location of population center j

Parameter

Coordinates

oj

Charging demand of population center j (see Appendix A)

Parameter

variable

Scaled population

NP

Total number of population centers

Parameter

16

Population centers

Ri

Road vertex closest to station i

Decision variables

-

Coordinates

β

Gaussian Scaling Coefficient

Fitting Coefficient

0.001

|| · ||2

Euclidean distance

Norm Function

Coordinate Distance