【Title】 Routing, logistics and management of recharging infrastructure for electric vehicles     
【Speaker】 Prof. Pitu Mirchandani, Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
【Host】Dr. Lei Zhao
【Time】December 1, 2017, 15:30 – 16:30
【Location】Shunde Building, Room 412
 
【Abstract】There is much reason to believe that many individuals and organizations will transform their vehicles to ones that utilize alternative fuels which are more sustainable. The electric vehicle (EV) is a good candidate for this transformation, especially which “refuels” by exchanging its spent batteries with charged ones. Unfortunately, although there is much research gone into technologies of EVs, little effort has gone into designing the battery charging-/ exchanging- infrastructure. This presentation discusses the issues that must be addressed, principally the issues related to the limited driving range of each electric vehicle’s set of charged batteries and the possible detouring for battery exchanges. In particular, the talk will address the optimization and analysis of infrastructure design alternatives dealing with (1) the routing of vehicles from origins to destinations, (2) the optimum locations of battery-exchange stations, and (3) the recharging capacity and operations management of battery-exchange infrastructure. Some infrastructure design and optimization models, and some results, will be discussed in the presentation.
 
【Brief bio】Dr. Pitu B. Mirchandani [UCLA, BS/MS in Engineering; MIT, SM (Aero and Astro) ScD in Operations Research] is a Professor and the AVNET Chair for Supply Chain Networks in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. He is the Director of the Advanced Traffic and Logistics Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (ATLAS). He is also the Chief Scientist of the recently awarded DHS Center for Accelerating Operations Efficiency, and a Senior Scientist, at ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability. For close to 40 years, Pitu Mirchandani has been studying relevant problems on Dynamic Stochastic Networks, with interests in models and systems for making strategic/tactical/operational decisions in dynamic and stochastic networked environments. Problems related to traffic flows on transportation networks can be typically addressed as such. Mirchandani’s contributions are in: (1) Location Decision Modeling, (2) Traveler and Vehicle Routing Models, (3) Real-time Data-Driven Decision Systems, and (4) general theoretical contributions to OR modeling, methods and algorithms. He has authored/co-authored four books and approximately 230 articles. Dr. Mirchandani is a member of IEEE, INFORMS, IIE, TRB, and a charter member of ITS-Arizona, where he was awarded the “Member of the Year” in 2007. He is a Fellow of INFORMS and Fellow of IEEE.