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Electric trucks are increasingly deployed to reduce the trucking sector's carbon footprint, but their limited range and charging needs create operational challenges on mid- to long-haul routes. Truck platooning can mitigate range anxiety…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Yilang Hao , Zhibin Chen

Many industrial sites and digital logistics platforms rely on diesel-powered light-duty trucks to transport workers and small-scale facilities, which results in a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). To address this, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Yifu Ding , Ruicheng Ao , Pablo Duenas-Martinez , Thomas Magnanti

The problem of joint coordination of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging and grid power control is to minimize both PEVs charging cost and energy generation cost while meeting both residential and PEVs' power demands and suppressing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Y. Shi , H. D. Tuan , A. V. Savkin

With growing interest in sustainable logistics, electric vehicle (EV)-based deliveries offer a promising alternative for urban distribution. However, EVs face challenges due to their limited battery capacity, requiring careful planning for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Arindam Khanda , Anurag Satpathy , Amit Jha , Sajal K. Das

Transit agencies that operate battery-electric buses must carefully manage fast-charging infrastructure to extend daily bus range without degrading on-time performance. To support this need, we propose a mixed-integer linear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Dan McCabe , Xuegang , Ban , Balazs Kulcsar

With the climate change challenges, transport network companies started to electrify their fleet to reduce CO2 emissions. However, such an ecological transition brings new research challenges for dynamic electric fleet charging management…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Tai-Yu Ma

Fluctuations in electricity tariffs induced by the sporadic nature of demand loads on power grids has initiated immense efforts to find optimal scheduling solutions for charging and discharging plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) subject to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Abbas Mehrabi , Aresh Dadlani , Seungpil Moon , Kiseon Kim

Effective utilization of charging station capacity plays an important role in enhancing the profitability of ride-hailing systems using electric vehicles. Existing studies assume constant energy prices and uncapacitated charging stations or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Tai-Yu Ma , Richard D. Connors , Francesco Viti

This paper proposes a two-stage optimization framework to evaluate whether cost-optimal electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure translates into effective operation under distribution grid constraints. The proposed approach explicitly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Biswarup Mukherjee

This paper studies the joint fleet sizing and charging system planning problem for a company operating a fleet of autonomous electric vehicles (AEVs) for passenger and goods transportation. Most of the relevant published papers focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Hongcai Zhang , Colin J. R. Sheppard , Timothy E. Lipman , Scott J. Moura

In this paper, we investigate the charging scheduling optimization problem for large electric truck fleets operating with dedicated charging infrastructure. A central coordinator jointly determines the charging sequence and power allocation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Ting Bai , Xinfeng Ru , Shaoyuan Li , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

AI data centers are increasingly becoming tightly coupled compute--energy systems, where workload placement, cooling demand, electricity procurement, storage operation, and carbon emissions interact over time. This paper studies…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Johnny R. Zhang , Gaoyuan Du , Qianyi Sun , Shiqi Wang , Jiaxuan Li , Xian Sun

The electrification of long-haul freight transport introduces several new challenges, such as the limited capacity and congestion at en-route charging infrastructure. To reduce waiting times during peak periods, this paper proposes a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Joas Kahlert , Ruiting Wang , Jonas Mårtensson

We study the problem of routing vehicles with energy constraints through a network where there are at least some charging nodes. We seek to minimize the total elapsed time for vehicles to reach their destinations by determining routes as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Tao Wang , Christos G. Cassandras , Sepideh Pourazarm

This paper examines the challenges and requirements for transitioning logistic distribution networks to electric fleets. To maintain their current operations, fleet operators need a clear understanding of the charging infrastructure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Juan Pablo Bertucci , Theo Hofman , Mauro Salazar

The last few years have seen the massive deployment of electric buses in many existing transit networks. However, the planning and operation of an electric bus system differ from that of a bus system with conventional vehicles, and some key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Rémi Lacombe , Nikolce Murgovski , Sébastien Gros , Balázs Kulcsár

We study the routing problem for vehicles with limited energy through a network of inhomogeneous charging nodes. This is substantially more complicated than the homogeneous node case studied in [1]. We seek to minimize the total elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Sepideh Pourazarm , Christos G. Cassandras

Operators who deploy large fleets of electric vehicles often face a challenging charge scheduling problem. Specifically, time-ineffective recharging operations limit the profitability of charging during service operations such that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-19 Patrick Sean Klein , Maximilian Schiffer

Electrifying demand-responsive transport systems need to plan the charging infrastructure carefully, considering the trade-offs of charging efficiency and charging infrastructure costs. Earlier studies assume a fully electrified fleet and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Haruko Nakao , Tai-Yu Ma , Richard D. Connors , Francesco Viti

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) systems have become a fixture in urban transportation networks, with the rapid growth of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft. Ride-hailing is typically complemented with ridepooling options, which can reduce…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Yang Liu , Qi Luo , Raga Gopalakrishnan , Samitha Samaranayake