An Optimal Deployment of Wireless Charging Lane for Electric Vehicles on Highway Corridors

The authors propose an integrated modeling framework to optimally locate wireless charging facilities along a highway corridor to provide sufficient in-motion charging. The integrated model consists of a master, Infrastructure Planning Model that determines best locations with integrated two sub-models that explicitly capture energy consumption and charging and the interactions between electric vehicle and wireless charging technologies, geometrics of highway corridors, speed, and auxiliary system. The model is implemented in an illustrative case study of a highway corridor of Interstate 5 in Oregon. The authors found that the cost of establishing the charging lane is sensitive and increases with the speed to achieve. Through sensitivity analyses, they gain better understanding on the extent of impacts of geometric characteristics of highways and battery capacity on the charging lane design.